Plant cells have several ... The outer membrane is permeable to small organic molecules, whereas the inner membrane is less permeable and studded with transport proteins. The innermost matrix ...

Aquaporins are proteins that rapidly transport water across cell membranes while excluding salt. They are critical for maintaining the right balance of water inside and outside cells and for ...

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“This work challenges a major assumption of cell biology by showing that the plasma membrane, the flexible bilayer that surrounds the cell, can have drastically different phospholipid ...

Viral determinants of local and systemic movement The movement of plant viruses within their host plants comprises the local, i.e., cell-to-cell, transport and the long-distance, i.e., systemic, ...

Conversely, membranes with lower area resistance had a higher salt flux. From these individual membrane results, a methodology was formulated to select component membranes for BPM fabrication, ...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Department of Physiology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea ...

Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural Materials, Ministry of Education and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130012, China ...

Once glucose is in your bloodstream, insulin signals cells throughout your body to absorb the sugar and use it for energy. Insulin also helps balance your blood glucose levels. When there’s too ...

1 School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China 2 Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, ...