1. Pentobarbitone anaesthesia, in rabbits, produces (i) hypokalaemia, (ii) increased intracellular potassium and reduced intracellular sodium in cardiac and skeletal muscle.
2. These changes suggest that the hypokalaemia which accompanies anaesthesia results from movement of potassium between the extracellular and intracellular compartments.
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© 1979 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society
1979
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