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Diffusion is fundamental to the random movement of solutes in solution throughout biological systems. Theoretical studies of diffusing solutes across cell membranes confined in a microscopic size of pores have been an interesting subject in life and medical sciences. When a solute is confined in a critical area of membrane pores, which shows a quite different behavior compared to the homogeneous-bulk fluid whose transport is isotropic in all directions. This property has novel features, which are of considerable physiological interest.
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The original version of this article was revised: The Greek capital letter Theta is missing in the PDF version in the sentence “Where the two-order in Θ represents a stable pore with a critical pore area Δ=π 2/4.” should be corrected as “Where the two-order in Θ represents a stable pore with a critical pore area Δ=πΘ2/4.” A word was also misspelled “legands” should be “ligands”.
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Haque, M.M. Diffusion coefficient in biomembrane critical pores. J Bioenerg Biomembr 49, 445–450 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10863-017-9726-8
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