Sentences with phrase «in osmotic pressure»

Studies have demonstrated that extreme changes in osmotic pressure and pH can destabilize the viral envelope.

have demonstrated that extreme changes in osmotic pressure and pH can destabilize the viral envelope.

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Similar effects will follow if the osmotic pressure falls in the veins or rises in the cells.

The compression technology helps balance the osmotic pressure, which in turn removes the excess fluids.

Robl and Stice, in collaboration with the biotech company Genzyme of Cambridge, Massachusetts, have already created embryos that contain the human gene for albumin protein, which helps restore the blood's osmotic pressure after blood loss.

The new procedure may lead to a cheap and easy way to create cow «drug factories» that reliably produce human proteins — such as albumin, which restores osmotic pressure after major blood loss — in their milk.

They showed that the cascade of events culminating in the condensation of the reflectins causes the osmotic pressure inside the lamellae to change drastically due to the expulsion of water, which shrinks and dehydrates the lamellae and reduces their thickness and spacing.

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

Osmotic pressure, the pressure that develops in a solution separated from a solvent by a membrane permeable only to solvent, was first described by Abbé J.A. Nollet, who became professor of experimental physics at the College of Navarre.

It might be a sign of the «peripheral sink» mechanism, through which the capture of AS in the circulation creates a kind of «osmotic pressure» that draws the more concentrated AS on the other side of the «membrane» of the blood - brain barrier (Figure 3, middle).

In higher plants, most of a cell's volume is taken up by a central vacuole, which primarily maintains its osmotic pressure.

Sodium is active in the absorption of other nutrients in the small intestine and is the major electrolyte responsible for regulating water balance, pH and osmotic pressure.

An effective concentration is not likely to be the same in the body, particulary due to conditions such as osmotic pressure and dilution factors.