Abstract
In the usual experimental technique, the membrane permeability to water in the units of cm/sec is not measured directly. The quantity which is usually obtained may be considered to be a measure of a coefficient of penetrability having the dimensions time/length. The purpose of this paper is to show that by introducing the bulk modulus of water, an expression is obtained from which it is possible to calculate the water permeability in the units of cm/sec from the values in conventional units.
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Landahl, H.D. A note on the units of membrane permeability to water. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 10, 187–190 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02477492
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