BIRADICAL SPIN LABELING FOR NERVE MEMBRANES*
Abstract
We have explored the behavior of pair interaction in a suitable biradical when it is bound by van der Waals' forces in a nerve membrane. We have concomitantly examined a set of model solvents to represent this situation. It appears that the biradical suffers a restriction of internal motion with a minimal restraint on its external motion in the nerve medium. The biradical is so situated as not to respond to the passage of the action potential.
Footnotes
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↵ † Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley.
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↵ ‡ On leave from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
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↵ § Permanent address: Instituto di Chimica Industriale, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; supported by a NATO fellowship.
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↵ ** Fellow of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, 1967-1968. Present address: Union Carbide Technical Center, South Charleston, West Virginia 25303.
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↵ * The work described in this paper was sponsored in part by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
