Abstract
ACCORDING to E. Bauer's theory, the lack of equilibrium in living systems is due to an excited state of the protein molecules of the protoplasm. The maintenance of this state is operated through the process of metabolism, collisions of the second kind between the molecules of the protoplasm and those of the food substance leading to an activation of the latter, and their chemical energy, set free in the reaction, being used to maintain the active, excited state of the molecules of the living substance1.
Similar content being viewed by others
Article PDF
References
A detailed presentation of the theory has been given in E. Bauer's ” Theoretical Biology” (Russian), 1935. A brief sketch and a few applications in Biodynamica, No. 14, 15 (1936).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
BAUER, E., RASKIN, A. Increase of Diamagnetic Susceptibility on the Death of Living Cells. Nature 138, 801 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138801b0
Issue date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138801b0
