Is the Cell Membrane a Universal Rate-Limiting Barrier to the Movement of Water between the Living Cell and Its Surrounding Medium?
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- 1 July 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 50 (6) , 1807-1820
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.50.6.1807
Abstract
With the use of a newly introduced technique, the "influx profile analysis," we studied the diffusion of tritiated water in and out of frog ovarian eggs at 25°C. The results show that the rate-limiting step in the exchange of labeled water is not permeation through the cell membrane but diffusion in the bulk of the intracellular water.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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