Abstract：
:The relationship between epithelial fluid transport, standing osmotic gradients, and standing hydrostatic pressure gradients has been investigated using a perturbation expansion of the governing equations. The assumptions used in the expansion are: (a) the volume of lateral intercellular space per unit volume of epithelium is small; (b) the membrane osmotic permeability is much larger than the solute permeability. We find that the rate of fluid reabsorption is set by the rate of active solute transport across lateral membranes. The fluid that crosses the lateral membranes and enters the intercellular cleft is driven longitudinally by small gradients in hydrostatic pressure. The small hydrostatic pressure in the intercellular space is capable of causing significant transmembrane fluid movement, however, the transmembrane effect is countered by the presence of a small standing osmotic gradient. Longitudinal hydrostatic and osmotic gradients balance such that their combined effect on transmembrane fluid flow is zero, whereas longitudinal flow is driven by the hydrostatic gradient. Because of this balance, standing gradients within intercellular clefts are effectively uncoupled from the rate of fluid reabsorption, which is driven by small, localized osmotic gradients within the cells. Water enters the cells across apical membranes and leaves across the lateral intercellular membranes. Fluid that enters the intercellular clefts can, in principle, exit either the basal end or be secreted from the apical end through tight junctions. Fluid flow through tight junctions is shown to depend on a dimensionless parameter, which scales the resistance to solute flow of the entire cleft relative to that of the junction. Estimates of the value of this parameter suggest that an electrically leaky epithelium may be effectively a tight epithelium in regard to fluid flow.
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Mathias RTdoi
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1985-06-01 00:00:00pages
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0006-3495issn
1542-0086pii
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