Comparative measurements of potassium and chloride with ion-sensitive microelectrodes and x-ray microanalysis in cultured skeletal muscle fibers

In Vitro ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Acker ◽  
F. Pietruschka ◽  
K. Zierold
1999 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1770-1783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasunori Takezawa ◽  
Duck-Sool Kim ◽  
Masaki Ogino ◽  
Yasunobu Sugimoto ◽  
Takakazu Kobayashi ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 147a-148a
Author(s):  
Gabriella Piazzesi ◽  
Massimo Reconditi ◽  
Elisabetta Brunello ◽  
Luca Fusi ◽  
Marco Linari ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
J. Sommer ◽  
P. Ingram ◽  
A. LeFurgey ◽  
R. Nassar ◽  
T. High

We are involved in a continuing series of experiments aimed at a complete description,in terms of morphology and quantitative topochemistry, of the time course of spatial distributions of physiologically important elements during excitation-contraction coupling (ECC) at different time intervals (fractions of msec) following electrical stimulation of single, intact frog skeletal muscle fibers. In this present study wg report such distributions for Ca after 1,2 and 3 min of electrical stimulation in the presence of 2x10-4 M ryanodine, an alkaloid that, in time, causes irreversible muscle contractures.Single, intact frog skeletal muscle fibers were quick-frozen, cryosectioned, freeze-substituted and in one case freeze-fractured. The freeze-dried cryosections were subjected to electron probe X-ray microanalysis (EPXMA) in a JEOL 1200EX analytical electron microscope equipped with a Tracor Northern X-ray detector and a fully quantitative imaging system. Both, 64/64 pixel images (ambient temp.), and small raster probes (cold stage,-115 °C) for better statistics, were obtained, each from the same section.


2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (supplement) ◽  
pp. S129
Author(s):  
H. Iwamoto ◽  
T. Uyeda ◽  
E. Katayama ◽  
J. Wakayama ◽  
T. Tamura ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 1045-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takumi Tamura ◽  
Jun'ichi Wakayama ◽  
Katsuaki Inoue ◽  
Naoto Yagi ◽  
Hiroyuki Iwamoto

Author(s):  
R. Nassar ◽  
P. Ingram ◽  
T. High ◽  
J.R. Sommer

We are performing a continuing series of experiments to describe the time course of fast physiological events in terms of morphology and microtopochemistry, using electron probe x-ray microanalysis in both the static probe (STP) and quantitative digital imaging (QDI) modes. As a model, we are using timed spatial displacements of elements (e.g. the release of calcium from JSR) during the process of excitation-contraction coupling in single, intact skeletal muscle fibers quick-frozen at known time intervals following electrical stimulation. There is considerable variance in the total calcium concentration ([Ca]t) among JSRs, which increases the requirement for widespread sampling to increase statistical confidence. Even at a low number of pixels/raster chosen for time economy, QDI seems well suited to deal with this variance because it covers a large number of JSRs in a reasonably short scanning time (64x64 pixels: ∽3 h; 128×128 pixels: ∽9 h). Here, we report on the efficacy of QDI in our experiments and compare the results with those obtained from STP.


2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (supplement) ◽  
pp. S49
Author(s):  
J. Wakayama ◽  
T. Fujisawa ◽  
H. Iwamoto

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