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Offline mayphd

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Half-life of biological substances
« on: March 26, 2009, 05:26:28 PM »
Hi All,

Please bear with me as I am not from a biological or chemical background.  I am trying to mathematically model pH regulation in a biological cell.  For this, I want to know whether : H+, CO2, HCO3 and lactate decay as time proceeds, so that I can include a decay term for each differential equation.  I have been looking in the litreture for their half-life values but didn't get standard ones that are in a normal functioning cell. 

Is the half life for a substance inside the cell different than that outside? Is there even data available to account for intra- and extracellular- half-lives?

Any guide or reference is much appreciated.

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Re: Half-life of biological substances
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2009, 07:53:58 PM »
please someone *delete me*

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Re: Half-life of biological substances
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2009, 03:09:31 AM »
You were already answered in the other thread - there is no such thing as what you are looking for.
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