Table 4.
List of abbreviations
    A-i, impermeant intracellular anion (= Donnan effector) 
    AChR, acetylcholine receptor (i.e., SMFs’ nicotinic cation-selective channel) 
    amol/s, attomoles/second (10-18 mole/second) 
    AP, action potential (Vm(t)) 
    ATP, adenosine triphosphate  
    Cm, total membrane capacitance of the cell model 
    CD, Charge Difference (all models are thus designated: CN-CD, MN-CD, SM-CD, LA-CD, WD-CD) 
    CN-CD, Cortical Neuron-CD (MODEL; the “parent” model; see Table 2) 
    DE, Donnan equilibrium 
    DMD, Duchenne muscular dystrophy 
    EionX, Nernst potential for named ion 
    EPSC, excitatory post-synaptic current (for SMFs, the endplate current) 
    GHK, Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz (electrodiffusive fluxes; open channel I/V relations) 
    H-H, Hodgkin-Huxley (for V-gated channels: non-dimensional parameters, m,h,n
    IionX, currents through channels permeant to ionX (or, if gated, then INav, IKv
    INaKpump, INa,pump, IK,pump, ImaxNaKpump (below, see 3Na+/2K+-ATPase & max) 
    Kv, voltage-gated potassium channel (or delayed rectifier) 
    LA-CD, Low ATPase-CD (MODEL;a low pump-strength SM-CD variant; see Table 2) 
    max, 100% levels for pump: maximal ATP-consumption (amol/s) or ImaxNaKpump 
    mdx, dystrophin-minus mouse 
    MN-CD,Minimal Neuron-CD (MODEL; CN-CD without co-transporter; see Table 2) 
    MRI, magnetic resonance imaging 
    3Na+/2K+-ATPase, “the pump”; as an electrogenic ATP-consuming enzyme, it generates… unidirectional ((efflux) INa,pump + (influx) IK,pump) = hyperpolarizing INaKpump 
    NAi , the quantity (attomoles) of cytoplasmic impermeant anions  
    Nav, voltage-gated sodium channel 
    Nav-CLS, coupled left-shift (of Nav channel gating)  
    Pcatleak, permeability of cation-selective channel  
    PCl, PNa, PK, permeabilities of always-open (“background,” “resting,” “leak” channels  selective for Cl-, Na+, K+ (thus, PNa:PK:PCl -- relative values in a specified membrane) 
    PH2O, membrane water permeability 
    PNav (or Kv or Clv), for V-gated channels permeability equivalents to gmax 
    P-L/D, Pump-Leak/Donnan  
    ROS, reactive oxygen species 
    SA, surface area (directly proportional to model parameter Cm
    SM-CD, Skeletal Muscle-CD (MODEL; see Table 2) 
    SMF, skeletal muscle fiber 
    UKCl, K/Cl cotransporter – maximal flux capacity 
    Vm, Vrest, membrane potential, resting (steady-state) potential 
    Vol, volume (Volcell is the corresponding cell model parameter) 
    WD-CD, Weak Donnan-CD (MODEL; an SM-CD analog, see Table 2) 
    A-i, impermeant intracellular anion (= Donnan effector) 
    AChR, acetylcholine receptor (i.e., SMFs’ nicotinic cation-selective channel) 
    amol/s, attomoles/second (10-18 mole/second) 
    AP, action potential (Vm(t)) 
    ATP, adenosine triphosphate  
    Cm, total membrane capacitance of the cell model 
    CD, Charge Difference (all models are thus designated: CN-CD, MN-CD, SM-CD, LA-CD, WD-CD) 
    CN-CD, Cortical Neuron-CD (MODEL; the “parent” model; see Table 2) 
    DE, Donnan equilibrium 
    DMD, Duchenne muscular dystrophy 
    EionX, Nernst potential for named ion 
    EPSC, excitatory post-synaptic current (for SMFs, the endplate current) 
    GHK, Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz (electrodiffusive fluxes; open channel I/V relations) 
    H-H, Hodgkin-Huxley (for V-gated channels: non-dimensional parameters, m,h,n
    IionX, currents through channels permeant to ionX (or, if gated, then INav, IKv
    INaKpump, INa,pump, IK,pump, ImaxNaKpump (below, see 3Na+/2K+-ATPase & max) 
    Kv, voltage-gated potassium channel (or delayed rectifier) 
    LA-CD, Low ATPase-CD (MODEL;a low pump-strength SM-CD variant; see Table 2) 
    max, 100% levels for pump: maximal ATP-consumption (amol/s) or ImaxNaKpump 
    mdx, dystrophin-minus mouse 
    MN-CD,Minimal Neuron-CD (MODEL; CN-CD without co-transporter; see Table 2) 
    MRI, magnetic resonance imaging 
    3Na+/2K+-ATPase, “the pump”; as an electrogenic ATP-consuming enzyme, it generates… unidirectional ((efflux) INa,pump + (influx) IK,pump) = hyperpolarizing INaKpump 
    NAi , the quantity (attomoles) of cytoplasmic impermeant anions  
    Nav, voltage-gated sodium channel 
    Nav-CLS, coupled left-shift (of Nav channel gating)  
    Pcatleak, permeability of cation-selective channel  
    PCl, PNa, PK, permeabilities of always-open (“background,” “resting,” “leak” channels  selective for Cl-, Na+, K+ (thus, PNa:PK:PCl -- relative values in a specified membrane) 
    PH2O, membrane water permeability 
    PNav (or Kv or Clv), for V-gated channels permeability equivalents to gmax 
    P-L/D, Pump-Leak/Donnan  
    ROS, reactive oxygen species 
    SA, surface area (directly proportional to model parameter Cm
    SM-CD, Skeletal Muscle-CD (MODEL; see Table 2) 
    SMF, skeletal muscle fiber 
    UKCl, K/Cl cotransporter – maximal flux capacity 
    Vm, Vrest, membrane potential, resting (steady-state) potential 
    Vol, volume (Volcell is the corresponding cell model parameter) 
    WD-CD, Weak Donnan-CD (MODEL; an SM-CD analog, see Table 2) 

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