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  • Title: Erythrocyte ghost Na+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
    Author: Dunn MJ, Burghes AH, Dubowitz V.
    Journal: J Neurol Sci; 1980 May; 46(2):209-20. PubMed ID: 6247454.
    Abstract:
    Erythrocyte ghost membranes have been prepared by two different methods from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), carriers of DMD, patients with other neuromuscular diseases, and normal individuals. The susceptibility of the membrane Na+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) to the cardiac glycoside, ouabain, has been investigated using various assay conditions. A stimulation of the enzyme has not been detected under any of the conditions employed. Using either a "high salt" (100 mM NaCl, 20 mM KCl) or a "low salt" (1 mM NaCl, 2 mM KCl) assay in the presence of EGTA a reduced susceptibility of the enzyme to ouabain was observed in preparations from patients with DMD compared with those from normal individuals. This behaviour was not manifest in preparations from NAD carriers or from patients with other neuromuscular diseases. The response of the erythrocyte membrane Na+,K+-ATPase activity to changes in temperature has also been investigated. The temperature response of the enzyme from DMD and DMD carrier preparations was indistinguishable from that of normal preparations. In all cases a break in the Arrhenius plot occurred at 21 degrees C.
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