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Tetraethylammonium is known as a pore-occluding blocker of voltage-gated potassium channels [ 1 ] , but it also blocks other cationic channels such as calcium-dependent K +channels [ 2 3 ] and the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor [ 4 ] . TEA at 0.1 to 10 mM also inhibits osmotic water flux through human AQP1 channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes, decreasing the net swelling rate in hypotonic saline by 30-40% as compared to AQP1-expressing oocytes not treated with TEA [ 5 ] . This blocking effect on osmotic water flux was demonstrated to involve AQP1 channels specifically by using site-directed mutagenesis (tyrosine 186 to phenylalanine) to generate a Y186F AQP1 channel that is insensitive to block by TEA, but retains sensitivity to block by mercury.
The cells were transferred to microfuge tubes, pelleted (5 seconds at 14,000 rpm, Eppendorf 5415C, 4°C) and resuspended in hypotonic Buffer A (10 mM K-HEPES pH 7.9, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , and 10 mM KCl, with inhibitors added as for the media above) for 15 minutes on ice.
At two months of age, she was mildly hypotonic on a follow up evaluation and the diagnosis of a possible mitochondrial cytopathy was suspected.
Cells were lysed with hypotonic lysis buffer with protease inhibitors (Roche/Boehringer Mannheim, Indianapolis, USA).
The reason that the amount of fluid given matters so much is that giving too much, especially of hypotonic solutions, can lead to electrolyte imbalance, especially hyponatremia and hypokalemia.