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As discussed in Chapter 5, biological membranes tend to be more permeable to cations than anions and, further, fine discriminations are made by the membrane between various cations and anions. The high cation permeability of most plasma membranes, coupled with demonstrated net negative fixed charge within the membrane (c.f. Chapter 5), raises the question of whether these two phenomena are linked.
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Mackey, M.C. (1975). The Steady State Again: Approximations to Investigate the Role of Membrane Fixed Charge. In: Ion Transport through Biological Membranes. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81008-4_10
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