The living cell as a plasma physical system.
The question of whether plasma physical phenomena are compatible with biological structures is discussed using as examples the electrons in mitochondria and the electrolytes in cytoplasm interstices. The criteria for the occurrence of the plasma state are fulfilled only if the static dielectric constant epsilon r of the medium through which the electrons in mitochondria move is > > 31.55 and if epsilon r of the medium between ions in cytoplasm is > > 90.97 of > > 421.56. Suggestions are made for experiments testing whether plasma physical phenomena might actually exist in the living cell.
D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D007477:Ions; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D013696:Temperature
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