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The function of epithelia includes the cooperation of at least two membranes with different transport properties. Ideally, these membranes should be studied in isolation. When the membranes cannot be isolated physically, they can still be studied individually by isolating the response of one membrane to a change of experimental conditions from that of all others. For frog skin studies we have developed a fast-flow chamber which permits to isolate the response of one membrane (the Na-selective membrane or ‘outer Na barrier’) of the skin to step changes of the composition of the outer bathing fluid.
This investigation was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB 38.
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Fuchs, W., Gebhardt, U., Lindemann, B. (1972). Delayed Voltage Responses to Fast Changes of (Na)O at the Outer Surface of Frog Skin Epithelium. In: Kreuzer, F., Slegers, J.F.G. (eds) Biomembranes : Passive Permeability of Cell Membranes. Biomembranes, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0961-1_33
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