Measurements of the exchange of certain dissolved substances between voluntary muscles and saline solutions: an attempt to study the structure of living muscles by physico-chemical means

Abstract

In the present investigation the diffusion of certain dissolved substances into and out of muscle has been studied. Two of these, lactate and bicarbonate, are normally present in the animal body, while the other two-iodide and iodoacetate - are extraneous substances.In the concluding chapter the results obtained by the writer have been compared with those of the diffusion of various substances as found by other investigators, and an attempt has been made to form an idea of the normal concentration of various dissolved substances in that portion of the muscle into which these can diffuse, and in the rest of the muscle