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Localization of Electrolytes in Muscle

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THE volume of the free interspaces within the freshly excised sartorius of the frog has a mean value of 9 ml./100 gm. when measured by inulin, agreeing with the results from the magnesium method1. (The inulin method when applied to rabbit muscle2 after preliminary injection into the blood stream gives 7 ml./100 gm.)

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  1. Conway, E. J., and Crucss-Callaghan, G., Biochem. J., 31, 828, (1937)

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  2. Conway, E. J., and Fitzgerald, O. (unpublished observations).

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CONWAY, E., KANE, F., BOYLE, P. et al. Localization of Electrolytes in Muscle. Nature 144, 752–753 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144752a0

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