“…In some epithelia, this efflux results from activation of volume-sensitive K + , Cl − channels (Grunnet et al, 2002;Hazama and Okada, 1988;Pavenstadt et al, 1996;Shen et al, 2001). Another contributor to RVD in human CEC (HCEC) and some other tissues is the K-Cl cotransporter (KCC) (Capo-Aponte et al, 2005, 2007aErnest et al, 2005). Even though volume sensitive Cl − channel activity was identified in many tissues, nothing is known about the role of K + as a counterion to Cl − egress in RCEC (AlNakkash et al, 2004;Dupre-Aucouturier et al, 2004;Hazama and Okada, 1988;Inoue et al, 2005) The ability of cells to regulate their cellular volume during exposure to an anisosmotic challenge is essential for sustaining their proliferative (Lang et al, 2005;Schreiber, 2005), migratory (Mao et al, 2005;Soroceanu et al, 1999) and secretory activity (Do et al, 2006;Strbak and Greer, 2000).…”