Ion migration through cell membranes: is it a process of diffusing corpuscles or diffracted ion matterwaves?

H Kunig

doi:10.1016/0306-9877(80)90094-8

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Ion migration through cell membranes: is it a process of diffusing corpuscles or diffracted ion matterwaves?

H Kunig

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Justifications are presented for treating the process of ion migration through cell membranes not as a process of diffusing corpuscles but as a process of ion matterwaves being diffracted or reflected at the membrane corresponding to a permeable or an impermeable membrane. A qualitative explanation of the actions of anesthetics is given using the wave mechanical concept.

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H Kunig. 1980. Ion migration through cell membranes: is it a process of diffusing corpuscles or diffracted ion matterwaves?. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9877(80)90094-8

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