BOUND WATER IN MUSCLE

Bound Water in Muscle

1. The amount of free unfrozen water, i.e. water acting as normal solvent, in frog's muscle at temperatures below the initial freezing-point has been calculated from the vapour pressure isotherm of the muscle. 2. Significant amounts of free water are present at -20 degrees C. The total amount of unfrozen water at -20 degrees C. cannot, therefore, be taken as a measure of the bound water in musc...

Muscle bound

Type ‘muscle’ into your search engine, and you’re likely to end up someplace like www.hugebiceps.com. But if what you really want is to understand the mysteries of myosin, a better place to start is the University of California, San Diego’s Introduction to Muscle Physiology and Design site. Its general overview, written at a fairly basic level, starts with development and progresses through to ...

"Bound water" in barnacle muscle as indicated in nuclear magnetic resonance studies.

Nature of Bound Water in Colloidal Systems.

The state of water in colloidal systems is a controversial subject. Discovery of the colloidal state by GRAHAM (18) was followed by extensive studies by VAN BEMMELN (66, 67, 68, 69) and ZSIGMONDY (73, 74). Thermodynamic studies by KATZ (36) indicated significant changes in free energy and heat content in colloidal systemis at low water content. OVERTON (51) concluded that part of the water in a...

Water induced weakly bound electrons in DNA.

We have studied the effect of humidity on the electronic properties of DNA base pairs. We found that the hydrogen links of the nucleobases with water molecules lead to a shift of the pi electron density from carbon atoms to nitrogen atoms and can change the symmetry of the wave function for some nucleobases. As a result, the orbital energies are shifted which leads to a decrease in the potentia...