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In the isolated frog urinary bladder a 20- to 50-fold increase of the osmotic water permeability has been revealed in the absence of arginine vasopressin (AVP) as a result of several successive changes of the serosal Ringer solution. This increase of the osmotic water permeability was of the same magnitude as that of the effect of 1 nM AVP. Similarly to the effect of AVP, the amount of adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) in the cells rose, and aggregates of intramembraneous particles were formed in the apical plasma membrane of granular cells (as shown by the freeze-fracture method). Immunocytochemical studies using anti-actin monoclonal antibodies indicated depolymerization of F-actin following the AVP-independent change in water permeability. It was possible to decrease the high level of osmotic permeability to the initial level if 10 µl/ml of frog blood serum or a lipid extract of this blood serum, or 1 µM arachidonic acid or 1 nM prostaglandin E2 was added to the serosal Ringer solution. The rapid restoration of the osmotic water impermeability of the epithelium after the AVP- evoked effect was achieved by the addition to the serosal Ringer solution of Ringer solution in which intact frog urinary bladders had been previously incubated for 1 h. The data obtained indicate that the maintenance of the impermeability to water of the osmoregulating epithelium and the restoration of the initial low level of the osmotic permeability after the effect of AVP are due to participation of prostaglandin E2 and other autacoids as well as, probably, some physiologically active substances of a lipid nature that are present in the blood serum.
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Received: 5 December 1995 / Accepted 22 July 1996
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Natochin, Y., Parnova, R., Shakhmatova, E. et al. AVP-independent high osmotic water permeability of frog urinary bladder and autacoids. Pfluegers Arch 433, 136–145 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004240050259
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004240050259