Intracellular electrolytes in dystrophic mouse muscles
Intracellular electrolytes in dystrophic mouse muscles
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营养不良小鼠肌肉的细胞内电解质
DOI:
10.1016/0014-4886(72)90105-7
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发表时间:
1972
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
B. Salafsky
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作者:
J. Hoh;B. Salafsky
Muscular dystrophy is a group of hereditary diseases of skeletal muscle affecting man and several species of animals. Dystrophic muscles contain more Na+ and less K+ per unit weight than normal muscles (2, 8, 15). This difference in electrolyte content is due, at least in part, to loss of muscle tissue and its replacement by connective tissue, resulting in a decrease in intrafiber space with an increase in extrafiber space (9). Do changes in intracellular electrolyte levels contribute to changes in Na+ and Ii+ content of dystrophic muscles? This question is important because we have recently shown by nerve cross-union experiments that intracellular electrolytes in rat muscles are under neural regulation (7). An affirmative answer would suggest the interesting possibility that the neural regulatory influence for muscle electrolytes may be defective in muscular dystrophy. There are differences in electrophysiological properties of dystrophic and normal muscle fibers which suggest that there may be differences in intracellular electrolyte composition. There is general agreement in the literature (4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13) that the resting membrane potential of dystrophic mouse muscle fibers measured in view are significantly lower than those of normal muscle fibers, though values obtained from different laboratories differ significantly, presumably because of differences in fiber type composition of muscles used and in sampling techniques. By sampling fibers through the entire thickness of the gastrocnemius muscle of the mouse, Kleeman. Patridge and Glaser (9) found a mean value of 92.5 mv for normal and 84.9 mv for dystrophic fibers. Human dystrophic muscle fibers