Slezak Andrzej, Slezak Izabella, Zyska Aleksandra, Jasik-Slezak Jolanta, Bryll Arkadiusz
Department of Biology and Biophysics, Czestochowa University of Technology.
Polim Med. 2005;35(4):13-8.
Formalism leading to more general form of the Kedem-Katchalsky equation describing osmotic membrane transport, considering local unhomogenity of solutions called concentration boundary layers and influence of gravitational factor on membrane transport kinetics was presented. In order to test this formalism, osmotic volume flux was calculated, on the basis of experimental membrane transport parameters and aqueous glucose solutions in isothermal conditions. Obtained calculation's results are conformable to adequate experimental results presented in previous paper for flat polymeric membrane used in medicine (Biophys. Chem. 1986, 24, 173).