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PubMed1990

[Potassium deficiency in rat cardiomyocytes after whole-body hyperthermia].

Potassium distribution and content were studied in different compartments of rat heart papillary muscle by X-ray microanalysis. A higher concentration of potassium was measured in normal rat as compared to that in animals treated with high physiological temperature (45 degrees C), to be 120 and 80 mM, respectively.

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PubMed2005

[The structure and phosphorus or potassium deficiency induced expression of a calmodulin-like protein gene in Arabidopsis].

According to our previous microarray analysis, we found a putative calmodulin gene related to Pi deficiency and designated AtPsiCaM (Arabidopsis Pi-starvation-induced CaM). Results of structural analysis indicate that AtPsiCaM has three conserved EF-hands motif and belongs to calmodulin-like proteins family (Figs. 1-3). Northern blot analysis revealed that this gene could be induced by potassium and phosphate deficiency and not by potassium deficiency or high salinity (Fig. 4). The results of RT-PCR and GUS histochemical staining assays of the AtPsiCaM promoter::GUS transgenic plants showed that this gene can be expressed in all tissues to different expression levels (Figs. 5, 6).

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PubMed2004

Skeletal myopathy in juvenile barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch), cultured in potassium-deficient saline groundwater.

Saline groundwater is being pumped from a number of locations in rural Western Australia to prevent secondary salinity impacting farmland, rural infrastructure and areas with high conservation value. Aquaculture may offset the costs of groundwater pumping, and the suitability of groundwater for finfish aquaculture is being assessed through bioassays. There are marked spatial variations in the ionic composition of saline ground water in Western Australia and this paper describes two bioassays investigating a saline, potassium-deficient water source that resulted in mortalities in juvenile barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch). Histopathological examination revealed severe degeneration and necrosis of skeletal muscles, marked hyperplasia of branchial chloride cells and renal tubular necrosis. Clinical chemistry findings included hypernatraemia and hyperchloridaemia of the blood plasma and lowered muscle potassium levels. It is concluded that the principal cause of death was skeletal myopathy induced by low water potassium levels.

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