Sentences with phrase «osmotic pressure as»

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This may be because pregnant women require slightly more salt to maintain osmotic pressure (or fluid balance) as their blood volume expands.

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.

As water is lost out of the leaf cells through transpiration, a gradient is established whereby the movement of water out of the cell raises its osmotic concentration and, therefore, its suction pressure.

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).

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