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THE QUANTITATIVE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ION FLUXES, CELL SWELLING, AND RADIATION DOSE IN ULTRAVIOLET HEMOLYSIS.

Following treatment with ultraviolet radiation, human red cells leak cations at accelerated rates which depend on the radiation dose. With one exception (initial Na efflux), these accelerated cation fluxes fit the Ussing flux-ratio criterion for passive diffusion. Na efflux is transiently high, but with time falls to the value expected on the basis of the other cation fluxes. An equation based on the hypothesis of colloid osmotic hemolysis satisfactorily predicts the rate of cell swelling as a result of these ion movements.

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THE CONTROL OF THE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL OF MUSCLE FIBERS BY THE SODIUM PUMP.

Frog sartorius muscles were made Na-rich by immersion in K-free sulfate Ringer's solution in the cold. The muscles were then loaded with Na(24) and the extracellular space cleared of radioactivity. When such Na-rich muscles were transferred to lithium sulfate Ringer's solution at 20 degrees C, Na efflux was observed to increase with time, to reach a maximum about 15 minutes after the transfer of the muscles to Li(2)SO(4), and then to decline. The decline in efflux from these muscles was proportional to ([Na](i))(8) over a considerable range of [Na](i). The membrane potential of Na-rich muscles was about -48 mv in K-free sulfate Ringer's at 4 degrees C but changed to -76 mv in the same solution at 20 degrees C and to -98 mv in Li(2)SO(4) Ringer's at 20 degrees C. By contrast, muscles with a normal [Na](i) showed a fall in membrane potential when transferred from K-free sulfate Ringer's to Li(2)SO(4) Ringer's solution. The general conclusions from this study are (a) that Na extrusion is capable of generating an electrical potential, and (b) that increases in [Na](i) lead to reversible increases in P(Na) of muscle fibers.

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