METABOLISM OF EXCISED RAT SKIN IN HYPERTONIC MEDIA
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- 20 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 40 (3) , 351-355
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.40.3.351
Abstract
The rate of oxygen consumption by rat skin is inhibited similarly by hypertonic solutions of NaCl, KCl, and sucrose. The rate of anaerobic glycolysis is inhibited by hypertonic NaCl. The inhibition of QO2 by NaCl concentrations above about 2 osmols per liter is not reversible.Keywords
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