The Calcium Content of Muscular Tissue during Parathyroid Tetany
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Excepting the observations of Loughridge (1) we have been unable to iind data on the calcium content of striped muscle during parathyroid tetany. He found much less calcium in dog muscle during tetany (two animals) than in the muscles after recovery from tetany through treatment with calcium chloride or parathyroid extract (three animals). Katz (2) found 0.0685 parts of calcium per kilo of normal dog muscle. Behrendt (3) stated that the calcium content of muscles remains unchanged during parathyroid tetany in dogs, but gave no data. MacCallum and Voegtlin (4) found that the calcium content of brain tissue was reduced and assumed that it was lower in other tissues. Cooke (5) found slightly more calcium in the brains of dogs dying with tetany than in normals. On account of the small amount of existing data we thought it desirable to determine calcium in the muscles of normal and of parathyroidectomized dogs either to confirm previous reports or add new findings.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003