Measurement of intracellular ion activity in skeletal muscle fibers: Four microelectrodes or no deal

Affiliations

¹ Institut NeuroMyoGène, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 5310, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1217, Lyon, France bruno.allard@univ-lyon1.fr.

Comment

Bruno Allard. J Gen Physiol. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 7;151(10):1160-1162.

doi: 10.1085/jgp.201912425. Epub 2019 Aug 30.

¹ Institut NeuroMyoGène, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 5310, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1217, Lyon, France bruno.allard@univ-lyon1.fr.

Abstract

Allard reviews a new powerful method allowing measurement of intracellular ion activity in isolated skeletal muscle fibers.

A four-electrode method to study dynamics of ion activity and transport in skeletal muscle fibers.
Heiny JA, Cannon SC, DiFranco M. Heiny JA, et al. J Gen Physiol. 2019 Sep 2;151(9):1146-1155. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201912398. Epub 2019 Jul 18. J Gen Physiol. 2019. PMID: 31320390 Free PMC article.

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