Date of Award:

5-1-1962

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Biology

Department name when degree awarded

Physiology

Committee Chair(s)

Raymond T. Sanders

Committee

Raymond T. Sanders

Committee

Paul B. Carter

Abstract

Physiological phenomena such as glandular secretion, intestinal and tubular absorption, nervous activity and bioelectric potentials are all closely related to the movement of sodium (Na) and potassium (K) across cell membranes. The movement of the ionic forms of Na and K across biological membranes has been of special interest to investigators because the movements fail to conform to the predictions of diffusion and thermodynamic law (35). This behavior has been referred to as active transport when the following conditions are met: i) the transport exceeds or is opposite to that to be expected from electrochemical gradients; ii) the transport depends upon energy producing reactions within the cell.

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