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. 1965 May 1;48(5):933–948. doi: 10.1085/jgp.48.5.933

Cat Heart Muscle in Vitro

VI. Potassium exchange in papillary muscles

Jon Goerke 1, Ernest Page 1
PMCID: PMC2213761  PMID: 14324997

Abstract

The exchange of cell K with K42, J K, has been measured in cat right ventricular papillary muscle under conditions of a steady state with respect to intracellular K concentration. Within the limits of the measurement, all of cell K exchanged at a single rate. Cells from small cats are smaller and have larger surface/volume ratios than cells from large cats. The larger surface/volume ratio results in larger flux values. J K increases in an approximately linear manner as the external K concentration is increased twentyfold, from 2.5 to 50 mM, at constant intracellular K concentration. The permeability for K ions, P K, calculated from the influx and membrane potential, remains very nearly constant over this range of external K concentrations. J K is not affected by replacement of O2 by N2, or by stimulated contractions at 60 per minute, but K influx decreases markedly in 10-5 M and 10-8 M ouabain.

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