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Membrane Remodeling of Giant Vesicles in Response to Localized Calcium Ion Gradients
Published on: July 16, 2018
Fabrication and evaluation of membranes as specific electrodes for calcium ions
R Bloch1, A Shatkay, H A Saroff
1Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovaoth, Israel.
Abstract:
Membranes fabricated from an inert polyvinyl chloride matrix impregnated with tributyl phosphate and with tributyl phosphate plus thenoyl trifluoroacetone were tested as electrodes specific for calcium ions. Both types of membrane exhibited a high specificity for calcium ions in the presence of sodium, magnesium, and barium ions. In the presence of perturbing ions, the usefulness of membranes is limited by both the transport of current and development of potentials by the interfering ion. An experimental method for evaluating these interfering quantities is presented.

