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Studies in calcium-caseinogen equilibria, and their bearing on the secretion of calcium in milk. (preliminary paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Norman Charles Wright
Affiliation:
(From theNational Institutefor Research in Dairying, University of Reading.)

Extract

Two fundamental explanations have been advanced to account for the unequal distribution of electrolytes on either side of a cell membrane: the one bases the unequal distribution on the existence of a cell membrane of so-called selective permeability, by which the membrane is endowed with the property of presenting varying resistance to the passage of different ions; the other regards the unequal distribution as being due to the selective action of the cell constituents themselves. This latter theory regards the cell primarily as a system in which the distribution of electrolytes is governed by the equilibrium existing on either side of a membrane permeable to electrolytes but impermeable to other ionised constituents of the cell.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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