AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 248, Issue 3 339-R345, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Dibutyryl-cAMP increases basolateral sodium conductance of mosquito Malpighian tubules

D. B. Sawyer and K. W. Beyenbach

Dibutyryladenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) stimulates fluid secretion in isolated Malpighian tubules of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. In the present study the effects of cAMP on the basolateral membrane were studied with conventional microelectrodes. Membrane conductances were evaluated from the changes of the basolateral membrane potential (Vbl) consequent to ion changes in the bath. Under control conditions, Vbl measured -65.2 +/- 1.5 mV [83 impalements, 67 tubules]. A fivefold decrease in the bath Na concentration hyperpolarized Vbl by 10.2 +/- 0.6 mV [7], whereas a 4.4-fold increase in the bath K concentration depolarized Vbl by 7.9 +/- 1.0 mV [9]. In the presence of cAMP (10(-4) M) Vbl depolarized to -24.8 +/- 2.7 mV [9]. Vbl now hyperpolarized by 22.7 +/- 1.5 mV [7] for the bath Na change and depolarized by only 3.8 +/- 1.1 mV [6] for the bath K change. Thus the dominant effect of cAMP is the increase of the basolateral membrane Na conductance. This increase is consistent with 1) the depolarization of Vbl and 2) the hyperpolarization of the transepithelial voltage, the decrease of the transepithelial resistance, and the increase of Na and fluid secretion observed previously. Spontaneous oscillations of Vbl were observed and could not be attributed to cyclical changes of the basolateral membrane Na conductance.

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