ArticleThe Journal of membrane biology2017
Epithelial Fluid Transport is Due to Electro-osmosis (80%), Plus Osmosis (20%).
Article in The Journal of membrane biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Principles and features of ultrasound hypoechogenicity in diffuse thyroid pathology.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Review
- Myocardial Edema Revisited in a New Paradigm of Cardiac Electrical Microcurrent Application in Heart Failure.Bioelectricity · 2021Article
- Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
Epithelial fluid transport, an important physiological process shrouded in a long-standing enigma, may finally be moving closer to a solution. We propose that, for the corneal endothelium, relative proportions for the driving forces for fluid transport are 80% of paracellular electro-osmosis, and 20% classical transcellular osmosis. These operate in a cyclical process with a period of 9.2 s, which is dictated by the decrease and exhaustion of cellular Na
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