Osmotic Pressure

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adhesion between cerebroside bilayers. 
  • Allosteric modulation of β-arrestin-biased angiotensin II type 1 receptor signaling by membrane stretch. 
  • Application of the temperature-jump technique to the study of phospholipid dispersions. 
  • Aquaporin in Candida: characterization of a functional water channel protein. 
  • Aquaporins in Saccharomyces. Genetic and functional distinctions between laboratory and wild-type strains. 
  • Biophysical and ultrastructural characterization of adeno-associated virus capsid uncoating and genome release. 
  • Cartilage mechanics in the guinea pig model of osteoarthritis studied with an osmotic loading method. 
  • Cholesterol modifies the short-range repulsive interactions between phosphatidylcholine membranes. 
  • Chondroprotective role of the osmotically sensitive ion channel transient receptor potential vanilloid 4: age- and sex-dependent progression of osteoarthritis in Trpv4-deficient mice. 
  • Circulating Exosomes Induced by Cardiac Pressure Overload Contain Functional Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptors. 
  • Colloid osmotic pressure of steer alpha- and beta-crystallins: possible functional roles for lens crystallin distribution and structural diversity. 
  • Colloid osmotic pressure of steer crystallins: implications for the origin of the refractive index gradient and transparency of the lens. 
  • Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals novel roles of the Ras and cyclic AMP signaling pathways in environmental stress response and antifungal drug sensitivity in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Compartmental responses to acute osmotic stress in Leishmania major result in rapid loss of Na+ and Cl-. 
  • Contributions of hydration and steric (entropic) pressures to the interactions between phosphatidylcholine bilayers: experiments with the subgel phase. 
  • Cytosolic hydroxymethyldihydropterin pyrophosphokinase/dihydropteroate synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana: a specific role in early development and stress response. 
  • Effects of colchicine and cytochalasin B on vasopressin- and cyclic adenosine monophosphate-induced changes in toad urinary bladder. 
  • Electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction evidence for two Z-band structural states. 
  • Experimental tests for protrusion and undulation pressures in phospholipid bilayers. 
  • Feedback control of Swe1p degradation in the yeast morphogenesis checkpoint. 
  • Genetic Screen Reveals Link between the Maternal Effect Sterile Gene mes-1 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced Neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Hydration properties of lamellar and non-lamellar phases of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. 
  • Hyperosmotic stress stimulates promoter activity and regulates cellular utilization of the serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible protein kinase (Sgk) by a p38 MAPK-dependent pathway. 
  • Influence of lipid composition on physical properties and peg-mediated fusion of curved and uncurved model membrane vesicles: "nature's own" fusogenic lipid bilayer. 
  • Insulin-like signalling to the maternal germline controls progeny response to osmotic stress. 
  • Interactions between charged, uncharged, and zwitterionic bilayers containing phosphatidylglycerol. 
  • Lipopolysaccharide bilayer structure: effect of chemotype, core mutations, divalent cations, and temperature. 
  • Matrix protein gene expression in intervertebral disc cells subjected to altered osmolarity. 
  • Membrane fusion promoters and inhibitors have contrasting effects on lipid bilayer structure and undulations. 
  • Neurohormonal signaling via a sulfotransferase antagonizes insulin-like signaling to regulate a Caenorhabditis elegans stress response. 
  • Neutron and X-ray diffraction structural analysis of phosphatidylinositol bilayers. 
  • Nonlinear osmotic properties of the cell nucleus. 
  • OSCA1 mediates osmotic-stress-evoked Ca2+ increases vital for osmosensing in Arabidopsis. 
  • Osmotic loading to determine the intrinsic material properties of guinea pig knee cartilage. 
  • Osmotic-hypertensive opening of the blood-brain barrier in rats does not necessarily provide access for potassium to cerebral interstitial fluid. 
  • Prenatal nicotine effects on memory in rats: pharmacological and behavioral challenges. 
  • Prolonged reduction in colloid oncotic pressure does not increase brain edema following cryogenic injury in rabbits. 
  • Quantitative phase microscopy of articular chondrocyte dynamics by wide-field digital interferometry. 
  • Range and magnitude of the steric pressure between bilayers containing phospholipids with covalently attached poly(ethylene glycol). 
  • Range of the solvation pressure between lipid membranes: dependence on the packing density of solvent molecules. 
  • Release of [3H]norepinephrine from synaptic vesicles isolated from rat brain after the intracisternal administration of [3H]norepinephrine: influence of nucleotides, ions and drugs, and destabilization of transmitter storage caused by acute or chronic lithium administration. 
  • Repulsive interactions between uncharged bilayers. Hydration and fluctuation pressures for monoglycerides. 
  • Role of water in short-range repulsive and attractive interactions between macromolecules and bilayers. 
  • Salt stress increases abundance and glycosylation of CFTR localized at apical surfaces of salt gland secretory cells. 
  • Stress-specific activation mechanisms for the "cell integrity" MAPK pathway. 
  • Structural and functional response of toad urinary bladder to LiCl. 
  • Survival defects of Cryptococcus neoformans mutants exposed to human cerebrospinal fluid result in attenuated virulence in an experimental model of meningitis. 
  • TRPV4 mediates pain-related behavior induced by mild hypertonic stimuli in the presence of inflammatory mediator. 
  • TRPV4 plays an evolutionary conserved role in the transduction of osmotic and mechanical stimuli in live animals. 
  • The effect of osmotic stress on the production of nukacin ISK-1 from Staphylococcus warneri ISK-1. 
  • The effects of static and intermittent compression on nitric oxide production in articular cartilage explants. 
  • The perfusion of isolated whole organs. 
  • The volume problem in hypoperfusion states and appropriate therapy. 
  • Two different mechanisms underlie reversible, intrinsic optical signals in rat hippocampal slices. 
  • Two distinct N-glycosylation pathways process the Haloferax volcanii S-layer glycoprotein upon changes in environmental salinity. 
  • Type VI Collagen Regulates Pericellular Matrix Properties, Chondrocyte Swelling, and Mechanotransduction in Mouse Articular Cartilage. 
  • Vanilloid receptor-related osmotically activated channel (VR-OAC), a candidate vertebrate osmoreceptor. 
  • Volume and osmotic properties of human neutrophils. 
  • crl mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae resemble both mutants affecting general control of amino acid biosynthesis and omnipotent translational suppressor mutants. 
  • ΔN-TRPV1: A Molecular Co-detector of Body Temperature and Osmotic Stress. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Guan, Ziqiang, Research Professor in Biochemistry, Biochemistry
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology