Influence of various growth factors and conditions on development of resting membrane potential and its electrogenic pump component of cultured rat skeletal myotubes
Tóm tắt
The effects of different growth factors and growth conditions were studied on the development of resting membrane potential and its electrogenic—ouabain‐sensitive—pump component in cultured rat myotubes. Resting potential and its electrogenic pump component were dependent on the initial plating density of the myotubes, both values increasing with increasing density. Medium from cells plated at high density, when used to replace the medium of low density cells, increased both the resting potential and its electrogenic pump component of low density myotubes. Treatment of myotubes with cytosine‐arabinoside delayed the appearance of [3H]ouabain binding sites and electrogenic pump component of resting potential, but by 8 days in culture there was no difference between treated and control cells. Similarly, cells plated initially in 5% horse serum developed resting potential and its electrogenic pump component more slowly than those in 15% horse serum, but by 8–10 days