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PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 206-210Publisher
INT PEDIATRIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200008000-00014
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK041612, R01 DK048482, DK41612, R29 DK048482, DK48482] Funding Source: Medline
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Neonates have a lower serum bicarbonate level than adults, which is caused by a lower renal threshold for bicarbonate. Eighty percent of bicarbonate reabsorption occurs in the proximal tubule, in which proton secretion is predominantly mediated by a luminal Na+/H+ antiporter. Previous studies have demonstrated that there is a maturational increase in apical membrane rabbit proximal convoluted tubule Na+/H+ antiporter activity. However, in rat brush border membrane vesicles, Na+/H+ activity was higher in neonates than that in adult rats. To examine the maturation of Na+/H+ antiporter activity in rat proximal convoluted tubules, we perfused rat proximal convoluted tubules in vitro. Na+/H+ antiporter activity was assayed as the proton secretory rate on luminal sodium removal. Na+/H+ antiporter activity was 121.2 +/- 18.4 pmol/mm min in neonatal and 451.8 +/- 40.6 pmol/mm min in adult proximal convoluted tubules (p < 0.001). We next examined whether the increase in Na+/H+ antiporter activity was associated with changes in renal cortical NHE3 mRNA and brush border membrane NHE3 protein abundance. Adult renal cortical NHE3 mRNA abundance was 10-fold greater than that in 1-d-old neonates (p < 0.001). There was a comparable developmental increase in renal brush border membrane vesicle NHE3 protein abundance (p < 0.001). In summary, this study demonstrates that there is a maturational increase in rat apical membrane Na+/H+ antiporter activity, renal cortical NHE3 mRNA, and brush border membrane vesicle NHE3 protein abundance.
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