IONIC CONDUCTANCES OF SURFACE AND TRANSVERSE TUBULAR MEMBRANES OF FROG SARTORIUS FIBERS
IONIC CONDUCTANCES OF SURFACE AND TRANSVERSE TUBULAR MEMBRANES OF FROG SARTORIUS FIBERS
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DOI:
10.1085/jgp.53.3.279
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
GAGE, PW
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文献类型:
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作者:
EISENBERG, RS;GAGE, PW
The resting ionic conductances of frog sartorius muscle fibers have been determined in a variety of conditions in order to measure the potassium conductance of the tubular and surface membranes (g~: t and gK') and the chloride conductance of the tubular and surface membranes (got t and gore). In both normal fibers and fibers without tubules, measurements of input resistance and diameter were made at normal pH and at low pH when the chloride conductance was very small. These measurements permitted the separation of the ionic conductances: gct'= 219# mhos/cm~; golt-" 0# mhos/cm~; gK"= 28/~ mhos/cm2; gK t= 55# rnhos/cm. Possible sources of systematic error are discussed and a statistical analysis of the effects of random error is presented. The implications of the nonuniformity of membrane properties are discussed along with possible anatomical explanations.The membrane which encloses the sarcoplasm of frog sartorius fibers consists of the circumferential surface membrane and tubular invaginations of the membrane (located at the Z line in each sarcomere) which constitute the transverse tubular system. It might be expected that the membranes of both systems would have similar properties since they are continuous, but some evidence suggests otherwise. For example the change in membrane potential produced by a sudden change in the extracellular chloride concentration is faster than that produced by a similar change in potassium concentration (Hodgkin and Horowicz, 1960). One explanation for the difference in time course is that the potassium conductance system is less accessible to solutions applied to the outside of a fiber than is the chloride system. If the potassium conductance system were located only in the transverse tubules, while the chloride conductance system was on the surface, one clearly would expect the response to a change in potassium concentration to be slower than the response to a change in chloride concentration.