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Biophysical Journal 13: 143-166 (1973)
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Physical Properties of Onsager's Dipole Chain Model for Ionic Transport Across Membranes

I. Steady-State Fluxes and Instabilities

J. Schnakenberg

ABSTRACT

The steady-state fluxes in Onsager's model for ionic transport along a dipole chain are derived by application of Hill's diagrammatic technique for unimolecular systems. It is shown that under specific conditions the chain exhibits thermodynamic instabilities which prove to be a possible explanation for the phenomenon of electrical excitation in biological membranes.






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