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Jens Christian Skou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (179 words) |
 | Jens Christian Skou (born October 8, 1918) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. |
| Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark in a wealthy family. |
| His father Magnus Martinus Skou were timber and coal merchants. |
| Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC (2636 words) |
| At some point Skou realized that a phospholipid monolayer is similar to one half of the cell membrane, and that is why it could be used as a model of the water lipid interface of the cell membrane; the cell membrane is a double layer of phospholipids. |
| Skou thought it was possible that the local anaesthetic—by the pressure increase—blocked the opening of the membrane for sodium, thereby stopping the influx of sodium and, consequently, the initiation of the nerve impulse. |
| Skou thought that a protein—through a change in its conformation—was responsible for opening the nerve membrane for sodium and that the local anaesthetic, by penetrating into the membrane, blocked the conformational change. |
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