The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 49, 423-431,
Copyright © 1966 by The Rockefeller University Press
Interpretation of Tracer Washout Curves from a Population of Muscle Fibers
Kenneth L. Zierler 1
1 From the Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, Baltimore
Consideration is given to the role of a population of muscle fibers of distributed diameters in the observed washout of a tracer, with particular reference to radioisotopic K and muscle fibers. It is concluded that if washout of tracer from a single fiber is described as first order, then washout of tracer from a population of fibers is apt to appear as first order.
Submitted on May 21, 1965