Exploration of apical sodium transport mechanisms in an epithelial model by network thermodynamic simulation of the effect of mucosal sodium depletion: I. Comparison of three different apical sodium permeability expressions.

A model based on that of Koefoed-Johnsen & Ussing (1958) and elaborated by Hviid Larsen (1978) and Lew et al. (1979), is designed using network thermodynamic theory and used to simulate experiments performed on epithelia. Three different expressions for the apical sodium permeability are tested for their ability to reproduce the saturation of the short-circuit current with increasing mucosal sodium concentration. Using the parameters from the previous models, the sodium entry step is shown to be the rate limiting step. If the apical sodium permeability is constant, there is no saturation of the short-circuit current with increasing mucosal sodium. The saturation of the short-circuit current is simulated with versions of the model which include a variable apical sodium permeability. The phenomenological expressions used for the variable permeabilities are those proposed by Fuchs et al. (1977) and Civan & Bookman (1982). They describe the so-called feedback effect of the mucosal and intracellular sodium concentrations.

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