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The content of phosphocreatine and of the adenin nucleotides, ATP, ADP and AMP in the white skeletal muscle of rats of different ages has been determined.
There is an age-dependent relation between the quantity of phosphocreatine and the ratio of ATP/ADP. Young rats contain relatively much phosphocreatine (up to 57%) and a high ATP/ADP ratio (mean 6.7) while old rats show less phosphocreatine (40.8%) and also a low ATP/ADP ratio (mean 2.2).
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M. Ermini dankt der Schweizerischen Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften für eine Verlängerung seines Stipendiums undI. Szelenyi dankt für ein USA Forschungs-Stipendium an das Institut für experimentelle Gerontologie in Basel. Herrn Prof.F. Verzár sind wir für die Leitung dieser und weiterer Arbeiten zu Dank verbunden.
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Ermini, M., Szelényi, I. & Moser, P. Altersbedingte Abnahme von Kreatinphosphat und Änderungen der Adeninnukleotide in der Skelettmuskulatur von Ratten. Experientia 28, 401–403 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02008300
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