HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS - INVITRO INVESTIGATION OF MUSCLE-FIBER MEMBRANE PARAMETERS
HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS - INVITRO INVESTIGATION OF MUSCLE-FIBER MEMBRANE PARAMETERS
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DOI:
10.1002/mus.880070205
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
KUTHER, G
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作者:
RUDEL, R;LEHMANNHORN, F;KUTHER, G
To study the mechanism of attacks in familial hypokalemic paralysis, we recorded resting membrane potentials, action potentials, current–voltage relationships, and isometric forces in intercostal muscle fibers from three patients. In normal extracellular medium, the resting potential was reduced, but membrane conductance was not different from control. Excitability was reduced and the action potentials had no overshoot. On exposure to a 1‐mMpotassium solution, with or without insulin, the cells depolarized to about −50 mV, and became inexcitable. Over the tested membrane potential range from −120 to −40 mV, the slope conductance in the 1‐mMpotassium solution was not different from that of control fibers in a 1‐mMpotassium solution. In particular, the potassium component conductance was not reduced. Depolarized fibers could not be completely repolarized by returning to a 3.5‐mMpotassium solution. An experimentally induced transient shift of the chloride equilibrium potential to a highly negative value caused stable repolarization. Paralysis could also be induced by replacement of extracellular chloride with an impermanent anion, a treatment which causes myotonia in healthy fibers. It was concluded that the basic defects are a reduced excitability and an increased sodium conductance, and that these defects are aggravated on reduction of the extracellular potassium concentration.