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Module Content
1. Membrane Ultrastructure
· Assembly: The "fluid mosaic" membrane model
· Remodeling
· Structure-function relationship at the membrane level
2. Substance Transport
· The membrane model and substance passage
· Measurement of membrane transport
· Exchange mechanisms
· Electrolyte transport
· Water transport
· Transport of organic substances
3. Physico-Chemistry of Transport: Thermodynamic Aspects
· Generalization of the concept of chemical potential
· Osmotic pressure
· Donnan effect