The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 40, 351-355,
Copyright © 1957 by The Rockefeller University Press
METABOLISM OF EXCISED RAT SKIN IN HYPERTONIC MEDIA
Frederick A. Fuhrman 1
1 From the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford
The rate of oxygen consumption by rat skin is inhibited similarly by hypertonic solutions of NaCl, KCl, and sucrose. The rate of anaerobic glycolysis is inhibited by hypertonic NaCl. The inhibition of QO2 by NaCl concentrations above about 2 osmols per liter is not reversible.
Submitted on July 24, 1956