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1. Individual cells were isolated from adult rats ventricular myocardium by a collagenase digestion procedure. 2. Steady membrane potentials recorded with conventional intracellular glass micro-electrodes from cells in a modified Krebs solution containing 3 . 8 mM-KCl and 0 . 5 mM-CaCl2 were less negative than -40 mV in most cells (-25 . 3 +/- 10 . 9 mV, mean +/- S.D., 211 cells). 3. After addition of the potassium selective ionophore valinomycin (60 nM) to the bathing solution all recorded membrane potentials were more negative than -60 mV (-74 . 8 +/- 7 . 0 mV, sixty-three cells). 4. The internal concentration of potassium in the cells was determined as 120 . 8 +/- 1 . 7 mM (+/- S.E., n = 24) by flame emission spectrometry after centrifugation through silicone oil, using tritiated water and D-[1-14C] mannitol to estimate total and extracellular water in the pellet. 5. In the majority of cells in the standard solution the membrane potential recorded within a few msec of penetration was more negative than -70 mV (-78 . 4 +/- 9 . 7 mV, seventy-three cells). In sixty-six cells penetration initiated an action potential which overshot zero by 31 . 3 +/- 7 . 1 mV. This overshoot was abolished by reducing the external sodium to 0 . 1 of the normal value, and reduced or abolished by addition of tetrodotoxin (30 microM). 6. Modifications of the standard bathing solution which increased the number of cells with steady recorded membrane potentials more negative than -60 mV were: isosmotic substitution of sucrose for NaCl; replacement of NaCl and KCl by sodium isethionate and potassium methyl sulphate; addition of 5 or 10 mM-CaCl2; addition of 10 mM-MnCl2. 7. For cells in solution containing 2 . 5 or 5 . 5 mM-CaCl2, input resistances estimated from the amplitude of hyperpolarizations evoked by 200 msec current pulses were approximately 40 M omega at a resting potential close to -80 mV and became much greater as cells were depolarized. Time constants measured at the resting potential were approximately 8 msec. 8. In certain conditions, repeated spontaneous action potentials were recorded from contracting cells, and in quiescent cells evoked action potentials could be initiated by applying brief depolarizing pulses through the micro-electrode. Action potentials were coincident with contractions. 9. It is concluded that the resting potential of these isolated cells is normally more negative than -70 mV, and that the cells retain the ionic mechanisms necessary for the generation of active currents.
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