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Atomic 'Cocktails' Used in New
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Muscular Dystrophy Treatment
. By FRANK CAREY -*
AP Science Reporter
BETHESDA, Md. i - Utilizing
dissolved la water, yielding
tasteless solution
BETHESDA, Md. V — Utilizing Potassium, one of the key ele-
atomic “coctails,” government ments utilized by the human body,
scientists are making a new ap- is believed necessary for the nor-
Tmadh tawante trine * clue A- mal conduction of electricity in
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proach towards trying to solve use
riddle off one of mankind’s saddest
afflictions — muscular dystrophy.
That’s a disease — at present in-
eurable—in which there is a pro-
gressive wasting away and destrue-
tion of muscles. Estimates are
that between 200,000 and 300,000
Americans, the large majority of
them children under 10, are affect-
ed by it st any given time.
Children who get it before they
are 5 usually die within five years.
Individuals who get it in adoles-
cence or adulthood usually die by
the time they are 30, but in the
meantime they are seriously erip-
pled. All victims ultimately die as
an indirect result of their muscu-
lar dystrophy because while the
disease doesn’t kill of itself. It
leaves its sufferers prone to dead-
ly infections that other people
might fight off.
Tested on I Victims
Researchers at the Neurological
Institute of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) are giving -atom-
ic cocktails’’ to five victims of the
disease—ranging in age from 6 to
36—in a new attempt to trace its
la certain diseases of the nerv-
ous system other than muscular
dystrophy there already has been
at least suggestive evidence that
a “disbalance” between the
amount of potassium occurring to
the muscles and the amount pres-
ent to the fluid part of the bleed
may contribute to the development
of those diseases.
Is its radioactive form, the ele-
ment can be traced to the body.
The institutes’ new project will
be aided by the rather recent de-
velopment of a technique for pro-
ducing "artificial muscle fibers”
to the laboratory.
By means of this technique, two
key chemical proteins that are
present in all muscles are extract-
ed from a piece of ground-up mus-
cle. When placed to a solution to a
ling
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cause.
The patients, admitted to the in-
stitutes' recently opened clinical
center, include two from Arling-
ton. Va., and one each from Wash-
ington. D. C., Burlington, N. C.,
and Elizabeth City, N. C. Their
names have not been made public.
The doctors emphasize that the
“cocktails" do not constitute a
treatment. But they say the hope
is that the studies made possible
with the atomic materials may
point a way—possibly a dietary
way—to treating the malady which
has so far proved unconquerable
by a host of drugs and other treat-
ments.
Tasteless Solution
The "cocktails" consist of a tiny
amount of radioactive potassium
flask, the proteins “create” a
threadlike muscle fiber. This fiber
can then be made to contract by
treating it with another body
chemical called adenosine tri-phos-
phate (ATP).
Accurate Gauge
The extent of contraction can
be measured by means at a mi-
croscope, thus affording a highly
accurate gauge of the strength of
a person's muscles.
Any clues which might develop
from the studies are not expected
to shew up for at least six months.
Meanwhile, here is the method be-
ing followed:
1. Tests are first made of the
present powers of diseased mus-
cles.
2. The “radioactive cocktails”
have been given to all five pa-
tients.
Studies will be made to deter-
mine to what extent potassium is
actually utilised by the muscles
and to measure the rate of ex-
change of potassium between the
blood serum and the muscles and 1
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All American Selections
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The winner for 1953
CHRYSLER
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ALL AMERICAN AWARD WIN-
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—All American winner, magnifi-
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25 or more $1.80 ea.
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Bushy 15-20 inches high-perfect
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3. If evidence of any apparent
unbalances shows up—compared
with the situation to normal people
—studies will then be made of the
effect of getting additional potas-
sium into the patient’s system, or,
if so indicated, restricting the pa-
tient’s intake of that element.
A Then the researchers will turn
to making “artificial muscle fi-
bers" again—but this time, the ob-
jective will be to determine wheth-
cr the addition, or subtraction, of
potassium has had any effect on
increasing the mechanical power
of the muscle fiber.
The number af heroes on U. S.
farms was reduced from 25 million
in IBM to around 5% million to
1953.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Friday Evening, Dee. IS, 1953
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