"Diffusion" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The tendency of a gas or solute to pass from a point of higher pressure or concentration to a point of lower pressure or concentration and to distribute itself throughout the available space. Diffusion, especially FACILITATED DIFFUSION, is a major mechanism of BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT.
| Descriptor ID |
D004058
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.202 G02.196
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Diffusion" by people in Profiles.
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Control of oxidative phosphorylation in skeletal muscle. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2001 Mar 01; 1504(1):12-9.
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Dynamic compartmentation of adenine nucleotides in the mitochondrial intermembrane space of rat-heart mitochondria. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1987 Feb 11; 890(2):117-26.
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