I love these interesting tidbits and would like to know the original source
or at least how the figure of 100 amperes was calculated and the
assumptions made. Our electron transport systems generate 100 amps current
in producing the 2-4,000 Kcal of "our daily ATP"? Please elaborate.
rlh
At 10:06 PM -0500 1/20/99, Richard Norman wrote:
In all cells that metabolize aerobically (i.e., most all except red
blood cells)
the mitochondria have an electron transport system that constantly pump
a totality of some 100 amperes of current (totalled over all the cells
of
the body). This tends to be "DC", and the mitochondria are arranged
in a random fashion so any fields will cancel out. I have never heard
of
any physical phenomena associated with this type of electrical current.
Richard Hall
Comparative Animal Physiologist
Division of Sciences and Mathematics
University of the Virgin Islands
St. Thomas, USVI 00802
809-693-1386
rhall at uvi.edu