title: The kinetics of swelling in muscle exposed to hypertonic glycerol solution.
abstract: In frog skeleton muscle treated with glycerol, the efflux of the slow potassium fraction is four times faster than the hydration of macromolecules being a little faster than the total swelling process. The slow K fraction is assumed to exist in special salt linkages called intra- and intermolecular K bridges for describing the correlation between the solubilization of proteins and K release. Conformational change involving helix-coil transition and cooperative effects in the K release could produce together the time-lag between the efflux of slow K fraction and swelling of the muscle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics, University Medical School, Pecs, Hungary.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hummel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005990:Glycerol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006982:Hypertonic Solutions; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009132:Muscles / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D011893:Rana esculenta
chemical_list: D006982:Hypertonic Solutions; D005990:Glycerol