CHANGES IN SODIUM AND POTASSIUM IN HUMAN RED CELLS IN VIVO RELATED TO TREATMENT WITH DIGOXIN, TO HYPOKALEMIA, AND TO CELL DENSITY
@article{Astrup1974CHANGESIS, title={CHANGES IN SODIUM AND POTASSIUM IN HUMAN RED CELLS IN VIVO RELATED TO TREATMENT WITH DIGOXIN, TO HYPOKALEMIA, AND TO CELL DENSITY}, author={Jens Astrup}, journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences}, year={1974}, volume={242} }
Human red cells are low-sodium and high-potassium cells. In vivo the sodium and potassium concentrations are maintained at a steady state by an active sodium outflux and potassium influx in balance with the leak fluxes of sodium and potassium in the opposite directions. This system has been especially well described in human red cells, and it follows from the kinetics of the sodium and potassium fluxes that an inhibition of active transport, o r an increase in membrane permeability for these…
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