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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 56, 322-341, Copyright © 1970 by The Rockefeller University Press

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Sodium Movements in the Human Red Blood Cell

John R. Sachs 1

1 From the Department of Hematology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D. C. 20012, and the Department of Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

Measurements were made of the sodium outflux rate constant, okNa, and sodium influx rate constant, ikNa, at varying concentrations of extracellular (Nao) and intracellular (Nac) sodium. okNa increases with increasing [Nao] in the presence of extracellular potassium (Ko) and in solutions containing ouabain. In K-free solutions which do not contain ouabain, okNa falls as [Nao] rises from 0 to 6 mM; above 6 mM, okNa increases with increasing [Nao]. Part of the Na outflux which occurs in solutions free of Na and K disappears when the cells are starved or when the measurements are made in solutions containing ouabain. As [Nao] increases from 0 to 6 mM, ikNa decreases, suggesting that sites involved in the sodium influx are becoming saturated. As [Nac] increases, okNa at first increases and then decreases; this relation between okNa and [Nac] is found when the measurements are made in high Na, high K solutions; high Na, K-free solutions; and in (Na + K)-free solutions. The relation may be the consequence of the requirement that more than one Na ion must react with the transport mechanism at the inner surface of the membrane before transport occurs. Further evidence has been obtained that the ouabain-inhibited Na outflux and Na influx in K-free solutions represent an exchange of Nac for Nao via the Na-K pump mechanism.

Submitted on November 12, 1969


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