Energy transfer via cell-to-cell junctions. Ouabain-resistant cells maintain a membrane potential in ouabain-sensitive cells.
FEBS Lett
; 262(1): 69-71, 1990 Mar 12.
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ABSTRACT
Animal cell cooperation has been studied in a mixed cell culture. Membrane potentials of human embryonic cells and hamster BHK-21 cells were recorded by intracellular microelectrodes. The Na+/K(+)-ATPase inhibitor ouabain (1 x 10(-6) M; 2 h) caused strong depolarisation of the human cells in pure culture. The same treatment reduced only slightly the membrane potential in the hamster cells in pure or mixed cultures, as well as in the human cells in mixed culture. The above data can be explained by effective ion fluxes through heterotypic gap junctions in mixed culture. Thus, in the presence of ouabain the Na+/K(+)-ATPase of hamster cells creates transmembrane differences of the electrochemical potential of ions not only in the hamster cells, but in the human cells as well.
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Assunto principal:
Ouabaína
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Junções Intercelulares
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
FEBS Lett
Ano de publicação:
1990
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Article