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Implications of Two Different Types of Diffusion for Biological Membranes

Nature New Biology volume 234, pages 220–222 (1971)Cite this article

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AS it is not widely appreciated that diffusion within complex media can be strikingly and often qualitatively different from that in simple liquids such as water, there is confusion concerning transport processes across biological membranes1,2. We would like to draw attention to some fundamental differences between the diffusion process in simple liquids and that in more complex media-non-porous networks of hydrophobic polymers and biological membranes.

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LIEB, W., STEIN, W. Implications of Two Different Types of Diffusion for Biological Membranes. Nature New Biology 234, 220–222 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio234220a0

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