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. 1961 Jul 1;44(6):1159–1164. doi: 10.1085/jgp.44.6.1159

Permeability of Frog Skeletal Muscle Cells to Choline

Eugene M Renkin 1
PMCID: PMC2195142  PMID: 13740854

Abstract

Using choline-methyl-C14 as a tracer, it has been shown that choline+ penetrates into the cells of resting frog skeletal muscle at a rate similar to that of Na+, and that it escapes from these cells much more slowly than does Na+. Some implications of these findings are discussed.

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