-The addition of 92 or 136 mM mannitol to a modified saline solution that contained 1.25 mM Ca 2+ led to a mannitol concentration-dependent increase in the amount of calcium absorbed in 1 h from 8 cm long ileal loops prepared from fasted male Sprague-Dawley rats, with body weights of 190 ± 10 g. It is argued that this mannitol-enhanced movement of calcium out of the loop cannot have utilized the paracellular pathway, inasmuch as the luminal calcium concentration of the mannitol instillate decreased during the experiment, with a negative calcium gradient between luminal and body fluids. Instead it is proposed that uncomplexed mannitol and the uncharged calcium complex of mannitol entered the ileal cells. The uncomplexed intracellular mannitol would bind additional calcium that had crossed the brush border down its gradient. The increase in total intracellular calcium will raise the effective intracellular gradient and thereby amplify intracellular calcium diffusion. This in turn increases calcium absorption.
intestine / mannitol / paracellular calcium movement / transcellular calcium diffusionRésumé -Comment le mannitol augmente-t-il la diffusion transcellulaire du calcium ? Une proposition. L'addition de 92 ou 136 mmol . L -1 de mannitol à une solution saline modifiée contenant 1,25 mmol . L -1 de CaCl 2 entraîne une augmentation de la quantité de calcium absorbée en 1 h au niveau d'une anse iléale ligaturée (8 cm) chez des rats mâles Sprague Dawley (poids 190 ± 10 g) à jeun. L'augmentation de l'absorption de calcium est dépendante de la concentration de mannitol. L'entrée du calcium induite par la présence de mannitol dans la lumière ne peut avoir utilisé la voie paracellulaire car la concentration luminale du calcium diminue au cours du test et le gradient devient négatif entre lumière et milieu intérieur. Nous proposons que le complexe mannitol-Ca non chargé et le mannitol non complexé pénètrent dans la cellule iléale où ce dernier peut également lier le Reprod. Nutr. Dev. 40 (2000) 1-9 1
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.