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Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
The renal connecting tubule (CNT) is a distinct segment that occurs between the distal convoluted tubule (DCT) and the cortical collecting duct. On the basis of its characterization in rabbit it is widely believed that connecting tubule cells have a low permeability to water and do not respond to vasopressin. Here we utilize segment-specific markers and specific aquaporin antibodies to characterize expression of water channels in CNT of the rat by immunocytochemistry. Colocalization of aquaporin 2 (AQP2), AQP3, and AQP4 with Na+, Ca2+ exchanger (NCX), a transporter characteristic of the connecting tubule, gave heterogeneous labeling. There was aquaporin labeling in many but not all regions labeled by NCX. Colocalization of AQP2 with AQP3 and with AQP4 showed that AQP3 and AQP4 labeling were always accompanied by AQP2. Immunogold labeling and electron microscopy showed that NCX-labeled cells with AQP2 labeling had the morphology of CNT cells, whereas NCX-labeled cells without AQP2 labeling were DCT cells. The latter regions were identified as the late region of the DCT known as DCT2. Additionally, regions of CNT lacking AQP2 labeling could be identified in Brattleboro rats not treated with vasopressin but not in such animals chronically treated with deamino-Cys1,D-Arg8-vasopressin (dDAVP). Quantitative analysis of labeling was consistent with expression of AQP2 over a longer region of CNT after dDAVP exposure.
kidney; urinary concentrating mechanism; water channel; collecting duct; distal tubule
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