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Uptake of Pyridoxine by in Vivo Perfused Segments of Rat Small Intestine: a Possible Role for Intracellular Vitamin Metabolism¹

The Gastroenterology Research Laboratories, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Downtown Division, Augusta, GA 30910 and the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912

The present studies utilized the in vivo single-pass, luminally perfused intestinal segment model in rats to evaluate pyridoxine (PN) uptake under conditions that permitted prolonged exposure of mucosa to relatively constant PN concentrations. Perfusates contained [¹⁴C]PN, unlabeled PN, and [³H]polyethylene glycol in buffer. Uptake was constant for 1 h and correlated with water absorption. Uptake of 0.2 µM PN was highest in the duodenum, intermediate in the jejunum, and lowest in the ileum. When expressed as uptake/micromolar PN, uptake of 1 mM compared to 0.2 µM PN was decreased by 37.5% in duodenum (P < 0.001) and 14.4% in jejunum (P < 0.05); uptake/micromolar PN were similar in ileum. In duodenum saturable uptake was apparent for 2–100 µM PN and was not explainable by a membrane carrier, presence of bile or lumen-plasma concentration gradients. Conclusions were:

1) uptake of PN by in vivo perfused intestinal segments decreases from proximal to distal;

2) the greater uptake proximally was associated with a saturable component of uptake that was greatest in duodenum, less, but significant, in proximal jejunum and absent in distal ileum and

3) saturation of uptake in the rat proximal small intestine was compatible with a role for mucosal metabolism of absorbed PN in the enhancement of uptake of PN at low luminal concentrations.

KEY WORDS: • pyridoxine • phosphorylation • small intestine • absorption

¹ This work was supported by the Medical Research Service of the Veterans Administration.

Manuscript received 29 January 1985. Revision accepted 10 April 1985.

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