Sentences with phrase «also osmotic»

FODMAPs are also osmotic, meaning that they draw water into your intestinal tract.

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Biophysics also grew out of investigations on diffusion gradients and osmotic pressure — two forces responsible for the passive flow of matter in living organisms.

Also, genes related to «protein folding» (GO: 0006457; P = 7.84 e − 04) and those responding to osmotic and starvation stress were enriched, suggesting that nutrient remobilization and stress pathways are activated during the loss of meristem activity and development of bristles (Supplemental Data Sets 4 and 5).

Understanding how yeast cope with osmotic stress is useful to understand how human cells respond to medical treatments, but the principles are also applicable to many other fields, including agriculture.

The osmotic effect that FODMAPs can have in the intestine can help with constipation — but unfortunately also often contribute to other symptoms such as debilitating gas and bloating for those with IBS.

The FODMAPs are most likely to be fermented by gut bacteria and are also highly osmotic, meaning that they attract water into the large bowel, which can alter how quickly the bowels move (constipation or diarrhea).

As blood glucose levels increase, glucose also increases within the aqueous humor, glucose readily diffuses across the lens capsule, an aldose reductase pathway converts glucose to sorbitol, sorbitol accumulates within the lens as it can not diffuse through lens cell membranes, the osmotic gradient increases, water enters the lens and irreversibly changes the lens structure via lens fiber swelling and rupture, vacuole formation, and clinically evident cataract.