Isolation of and Direct Analysis of Uncontaminated Muscle Cell Contents

Abstract

IT has not been possible hitherto to separate muscle cell contents from the cell walls and the extracellular fluid^1,2, so that important factors, such as the concentration of intracellular electrolytes, have had to be arrived at indirectly. The number of workers who have resorted to studying the diffusion -rates of electrolytes into or out of whole muscles in lieu of direct determination is an indication of the wide interest in this field.