Parker J C, Gitelman H J, McManus T J
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
Am J Physiol. 1989 Nov;257(5 Pt 1):C1038-41. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.1989.257.5.C1038.
Depleting dog red cells of Mg prevents activation of Na-H exchange by cell shrinkage but has no effect on activation by acidification of the cytosol. Replacing cell Mg restores the activation of Na-H exchange by cell shrinking. We conclude that Mg is required, not for the transport process per se, but for the transduction of the volume stimulus.