Automatic recording of electric potential and ion transport in frog skin |
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Authors: | Addison D. Campbell William D. Seward Thomas E. Gilmer Jr. Ernst G. Huf |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physiology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va., USA;(2) Department of Physics, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va., USA |
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Abstract: | Summary An apparatus for the automatic recording of the bioelectric potential of isolated frog skin and of the short-circuit current, which is a measure of active Na+ transport, is described. The equivalence of the uninterrupted short-circuit current and active Na+ transport has been checked. Current and Na+ transport agreed within 2%.The automatic ion transport recorder is particularly suited in studies where the exact time course of the effects of enzyme inhibitors, drugs and other chemicals on skin is of interest. This is illustrated by showing the effects of fluoroacetate, quinone and hydroquinone on spontaneous skin potential and short-circuit current.Attention is called to characteristic transients in the potential records which are probably related to changes in skin permeability to passively moving chloride ions.Supported by Public Health Grant RG 3545. |
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