Open Journal of Biophysics

Volume 3, Issue 1 (February 2013)

ISSN Print: 2164-5388   ISSN Online: 2164-5396

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Method for Tentative Evaluation of Membrane Permeability Coefficients for Sodium and Potassium Ions in Unicellular Organisms

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DOI: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2013.31A012    4,230 Downloads   8,258 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

The membrane permeability coefficient for sodium and potassium ions in unicellular organisms can be calculated using the data for cell volume, surface and mean generation time during growth and dividing of cells by binary. Accordingly theory of proposed method, the membrane permeability coefficients for passed trough outer cell membrane sodium and potassium ions, is equal to the volume of unicellular organism divided to product between cell surface and mean generation time of cells. The calculated by this way diapason of values overlaps with experimentally measured diapason of values of permeability coefficient for sodium and potassium ions. The deviation between the theoretically calculated and experimentally measured values of permeability coefficient does not exceed one order of magnitude.

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A. Atanasov, "Method for Tentative Evaluation of Membrane Permeability Coefficients for Sodium and Potassium Ions in Unicellular Organisms," Open Journal of Biophysics, Vol. 3 No. 1A, 2013, pp. 91-98. doi: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2013.31A012.

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