KINETICS OF AN INTRACELLULAR SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATION AND BIOELECTRIC POTENTIAL AT FLUX EQUILIBRIUM

The E.M.F. measured across a tissue will be the algebraic sum of the polarity potentials of all the cells included in the measuring circuit, or i The convention of sign is that of Lewis and Randall (12, pp. 389, 402), which is the simple negative of the more commonly used European convention (20, p. 465). An FA1 increase in the ratio _± 1_AH2J tion, however, has been followed in expressing the measured E.M.F. of cells and tissues. In consequence, the locus of high negative potential according to the equation is measured as the point of high positive potential. This has led to Lund 's formal error of statement that the value of the ratio is smaller at that locus which is positive in the measuring circuit.