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Title: How many molecules will hit a skin cell per hour?
Post by: scientizscht on 13/03/2019 15:34:48

Hello

Can you help me develop a human body kinetics model please?

I want to know how many new molecules of a specific substance per hour will 'hit/touch' a single cell which is for example a cell in the dermis.

I would assume this is mainly dependent on the concentration of that substance in the body (or blood).

Can you help me please? Even a somehow justified estimate will help.

Thanks!

Title: Re: How many molecules will hit a skin cell per hour?
Post by: Bored chemist on 14/03/2019 18:52:35

In principle you can do this yourself.
https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-0500-2-158
Or, for a less sophisticated model, you can simply assume that the substance behaves as an ideal gas.

Why do you want to know?

Title: Re: How many molecules will hit a skin cell per hour?
Post by: scientizscht on 14/03/2019 22:42:17

I want to see the rate of a molecule hitting a cell

Title: Re: How many molecules will hit a skin cell per hour?
Post by: Bored chemist on 17/03/2019 21:29:11

Quote from: scientizscht on 14/03/2019 22:42:17

I want to see the rate of a molecule hitting a cell

That's another of your "I want a list of all the numbers" posts.