THE NON-CORRELATION OF BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS WITH IONIC GRADIENTS
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- 20 September 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 40 (1) , 1-17
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.40.1.1
Abstract
The sartorius muscles of 320 toads have been analyzed for Na+ and K+. There is a wide variation in the Na+ content which when calculated intracellularly varied from 0 m.eq./kg. to 58 m.eq./kg. In particular it was found that the distribution of internal Na+ in the intact animal was such that only 17 per cent of the muscles should give from the Nernst equation the observed overshoot of 37 mv.Keywords
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