Tonicity
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tonicity-181-16280929
title:
Tonicity
text:
In chemical biology, tonicity is a measure of the effective osmotic pressure gradient; the water potential of two solutions separated by a partially-permeable cell membrane. Tonicity depends on the relative concentration of selective membrane-impermeable solutes across a cell membrane which determine the direction and extent of osmotic flux. It is commonly used when describing the swelling-versus-shrinking response of cells immersed in an external solution. Unlike osmotic pressure, tonicity is i
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description:
Measure of water potential across a semi-permeable cell membrane
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonicity
date created:
2005-10-03T11:12:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T02:08:52Z
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