Some Implications for Biology of Recent Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Ion Permeation in Model Membranes

This paper is an early, and possibly premature, examination of some consequences of different mechanisms of ion permeation in the hope of providing a basis for progressing beyond the present treatments of bioelectric phenomena (cf. Hodgkin, Huxley, and Katz, 1952a, b, c, d, e) which, in the absence of knowledge of the details of the mechanism by which ions cross biological membranes, have necessarily been phenomenological.