From my understanding, proteins in the blood have distinct charges as they move through the bloodstream. If a protein had a sufficiently, say positive charge, and a negative charge was applied outside the bloodstream on the skin, would it cause that positively charged protein to accumulate near that location on the body? I am unaware of any current research on this topic and would be very grateful if anyone could point me to some.
One potential issue I see with this is if charged proteins are balanced by counterions in vivo and if this may prevent the process from working.
I would expect that the high speed of blood flow (mainly) and also turbulence and the random thermal movement of the molecules would overcome any small movement due to movement in an electric field
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