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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 255: C595-C602, 1988;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 255, Issue 5 C595-C602, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Cellular pH and Na+-H+ exchange activity in lens epithelium of Bufo marinus toad

J. M. Wolosin, L. J. Alvarez and O. A. Candia
Department of Ophthalmology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029.

Incubation of lenses with the acetoxymethyl ester of 2,7-biscarboxyethyl-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF-AM) led to selective, prolonged entrapment of the deesterified, pH-sensitive, membrane-impermeable form of the dye (BCECF) in the lens epithelial cells allowing, thereby, for the continuous fluorometric monitoring of epithelial intracellular pH (pHi) in intact lenses. Under anaerobic conditions in physiological solution, the epithelium maintained a pHi of 7.36 +/- 0.14 (mean +/- SD, n = 6 lenses). In the absence of CO2 and HCO3-, the pHi increased to 7.83 +/- 0.38 (n = 55). In this condition, either the removal of Na+ or the addition of amiloride to the medium resulted in a decrease of pHi. This acidification was increased in amiloride-inhibitable fashion when lenses were loaded with Na+ before extracellular Na+ removal. The extent of artificially generated cellular acidosis (induced by the "NH4+ loading" technique) was markedly decreased by the presence of extracellular Na+ or reverted on its addition when the ion was initially absent; the latter reversal was inhibited by amiloride. This inhibition was by-passed by monensin addition. The existence of a Na+-H+ antiport in the epithelial cells is concluded.


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