Amiloride directly inhibits the Na,K-ATPase activity of rabbit kidney proximal tubules

Science. 1983 May 27;220(4600):957-8. doi: 10.1126/science.6302840.

Abstract

Amiloride inhibited the ouabain-sensitive rate of oxygen consumption (QO2) of a suspension of rabbit intact proximal tubules in the presence of different concentrations of extracellular sodium. Measurements of the ouabain-sensitive QO2 in the presence of nystatin, the tissue sodium and potassium contents of the tubules in suspension, and the sodium- and potassium-dependent adenosinetriphosphatase (Na,K-ATPase) activity of lysed tubule membranes indicated that the effect of amiloride was due to a direct inhibition of the Na,K-ATPase activity of the proximal tubule.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amiloride / pharmacology*
  • Animals
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Female
  • Ion Channels / drug effects
  • Kidney Tubules, Proximal / drug effects
  • Kidney Tubules, Proximal / enzymology*
  • Nystatin / pharmacology
  • Ouabain / pharmacology
  • Oxygen Consumption / drug effects
  • Pyrazines / pharmacology*
  • Rabbits
  • Rats
  • Sodium / metabolism
  • Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / metabolism

Substances

  • Ion Channels
  • Pyrazines
  • Nystatin
  • Ouabain
  • Amiloride
  • Sodium
  • Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase