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Mass Transport in Biological Systems. OBJECTIVES To discuss how to model mass transport processes within the body. OUTLINE review Fick’s first and second laws consider diffusion + (reaction + convection)
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Mass Transport in Biological Systems • OBJECTIVES • To discuss how to model mass transport processes within the body. • OUTLINE • review Fick’s first and second laws • consider diffusion + (reaction + convection) • apply these concepts to solute movement across cell membranes/capillary walls, protein adsorption CHEE 340
Fick’s Laws of diffusion • strictly valid only for dilute solutions Fick’s 1st law : slab cylinder Fick’s 2nd law : sphere CHEE 340
Diffusion across a membrane • skin, buccal mucosa, cell membrane… Co C CL L distance, x CHEE 340
Example • Scopolamine is available in a transdermal patch for the treatment of motion sickness. You are involved in the design of a new patch for this drug and need to first determine the diffusion coefficient of the drug in the outer layer of the skin. To do this, you set up a diffusion cell using excised human skin (thickness = 100 m). The donor solution has a constant scopolamine concentration of 4.6 mg/ml. The concentration in the receptor solution is maintained at a concentration very much smaller than 4.6 mg/ml. The skin section you use is circular with a radius of 0.5 cm. The amount of the drug that has passed through the skin versus time is given in the following Table. Using this data and the fact that scopolamine has a partition coefficient (skin/water) of 17.4, calculate the diffusion coefficient of scopolamine in the skin. • Total mass of scopolamine transported versus time CHEE 340
Diffusion + reaction • oxygen delivery to tissue 2Ro 2Rc CHEE 340
O2 Delivery to Tissue CHEE 340
Example • Given that the reaction rate of oxygen in skeletal muscle is 10-7 mol/(cm3 s), the capillary radius is 1.5 to 4 m, the diffusion coefficient of oxygen in muscle is 2(10-5) cm2/s, and the concentration of oxygen in plasma is 4.05(10-8) mol/cm3, determine the maximum intercapillary radius. If the total oxygen content in the blood entering the capillary is 2 (10-3)M and during exercise the average flow rate in the blood is 0.2 cm/s, determine the capillary distance at which the concentration of oxygen in the blood is zero. CHEE 340
Unsteady-State Diffusion • Examples include injection of a drug into the muscle or sub-cutaneously followed by absorption into the blood stream, and the initial stages of protein adsorption to a biomaterial. • Consider protein adsorption: C at t= 0, C = Co x = 0 CHEE 340