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. 1967 Jul 1;50(6):1807–1820. doi: 10.1085/jgp.50.6.1807

Is the Cell Membrane a Universal Rate-Limiting Barrier to the Movement of Water between the Living Cell and Its Surrounding Medium?

Gilbert N Ling 1, Margaret M Ochsenfeld 1, George Karreman 1
PMCID: PMC2225747  PMID: 6034769

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.

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