From owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Nov 28 20:40:12 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB51517AEB; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:40:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id 8C9CC17A63; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:40:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1006415DD for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:40:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id UAA12396 for biophys-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:40:03 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: Mark Fry X-Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: skeletal muscle K+ current Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:09:49 -0330 Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Lines: 22 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: coranto.ucs.mun.ca 975443997 28387 134.153.2.151 (28 Nov 2000 20:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mun.ca X-Sender: wmfry@plato.ucs.mun.ca To: biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Adrian, Chandler, and Hodgkin (1970) described the action potentials of frog sartorius muscle and fit the currents to the HH model with m^3h n^4 kinetics. They reported however that The K+ current had a reversal of 20 mV positive to EK. Does anybody know what the eventual explaination for the was? Mark Fry rm 4330 BMS Faculty of Medicine Memorial University of NFLD A1B 3V6 wmfry@plato.ucs.mun.ca An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) .