Development of pump electrogenesis in hypokalaemic rat muscle |
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Authors: | Norio Akaike |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 77550 Galveston, Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | In hypokalaemic rats maintained on a potassium deficient diets for 10–50 days, the isolated Na-loaded and K-depleted (Na-rich) muscle fibers showed the membrane potential less than –115 mV in fresh muscles of normal rats in K+-free Krebs solution. Upon adding 5 mM K+ to the K+-free medium bathing the soleus muscles, the measured potentials of Na-rich muscles always exceeded the membrane potentials of fresh muscles in 5 mM K+. The hyperpolarization was dependent on the amount of intracellular Na+ concentration ([Na]i) accumulated during the potassium deficiency. The electrogenic Na-pump was activated by an increase of [Na]i of less than 5 mM. Further increases in [Na]i resulted in increases in membrane potential which appeared to approach a limit at [Na]i levels higher than 65 mM. |
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Keywords: | Hypokalaemic rat Soleus muscle [Na]i and Na-pump |
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