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Movement of labelled decamethonium in muscle fibres of the rat.

The Journal of physiology ·Vol. 272 ·No. 2 ·1977-11-00 ·Pages 283-94

Case R, Creese R, Dixon WJ, Massey FJ, Taylor DB

Abstract

1. Tritium-labelled decamethonium accumulated in diaphragm muscles of the rat in vitro with a peak at the end-plate region and the distributions were fitted by Gaussian curves. 2. Prolonged wash in physiological saline (10 hr) produced some loss in radioactivity but no detectable spread of the labelled compound along the fibres, which indicated that the decamethonium was not in a mobile form. 3. Rats injected with labelled decamethonium showed radioactivity in the diaphragm muscles after 21 days. 4. A slow spread of the labelled compound along the fibres was detected, and from the widening of the Gaussian curves the apparent diffusion coefficient was 1.2 X 10(-8) cm2sec-1, which is less than 1/500 of that in free solution.

MeSH Terms
Animals Decamethonium Compounds/metabolism Diaphragm/metabolism Diffusion Extracellular Space/metabolism In Vitro Techniques Motor Endplate/metabolism Muscles/metabolism Rats
Chemicals
Decamethonium Compounds
Authors & Affiliations
5 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Case R
Creese R
Dixon W J
Massey F J
Taylor D B
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Article Info
Journal
The Journal of physiology
Abbr.
J Physiol
ISSN
0022-3751
Published
1977-11-00
Pages
283-94
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0266262
PMCID
PMC1353558
Subset
IM
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