PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mary Ellen Trimble
AU  - Margaret Acara
AU  - Barbara Rennick
TI  - EFFECT OF HEMICHOLINIUM-3 ON TUBULAR TRANSPORT AND METABOLISM OF CHOLINE IN THE PERFUSED RAT KIDNEY
DP  - 1974 May 01
TA  - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
PG  - 570--576
VI  - 189
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/189/2/570.short
4100  - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/189/2/570.full
SO  - J Pharmacol Exp Ther1974 May 01; 189
AB  - Choline was studied in the isolated perfused rat kidney in an attempt to determine whether active tubular excretion occurred. The effect of (HC-3) was assessed to confirm other observations which suggested that HC-3 competed for choline uptake into nerves. Labeled choline and carrier choline were added to the perfusion system which recirculated through the kidney. During 70 minutes, periodic samples of urine and perfusate were analyzed for 14C-choline and its renal metabolite 14C-betaine by measurement of radioactivity associated with their respective reineckate fraction. A [(choline U/P)/ (inulin U/P) of 7.6 indicated active secretion. This ratio decreased with time as did the choline concentration in the perfusate. HC-3 was found to inhibit choline tubular transport at a molar ratio of HC-3/choline as low as 0.05. As much as 58% of the label from 14C-choline was found to be sequestered in the kidney. The label in the kidney was reduced by the presence of HC-3. The presence of HC-3 also resulted in higher perfusate choline and lower perfusate betaine. © 1974 by The Williams & Wilkins Co.