Osmoregulation: Some principles of water and solute transport

David C. Dawson; Xuehong Liu

doi:10.1201/9780849380525

Osmoregulation: Some principles of water and solute transport

David C. Dawson, Xuehong Liu

Knight Cardiovascular Institute

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Abstract

Living cells have developed the ability to persist in the face of a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, they preserve an internal composition that is an optimal milieu for metabolic processes that are essential to the maintenance of the living state and maintain the ability to regulate that composition as a defense against external perturbations. On the other hand, the maintenance of this environment and the nature of the associated regulatory processes demand that matter be continuously shuttled in and out of the cell. In other words, cells must maintain an internal composition that is constant but is also not in equilibrium with its environment. Cellular composition is maintained in a so-called “steady state” in the face of constant in and out traffic across the cell membrane.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Osmotic and Ionic Regulation
Subtitle of host publication	Cells and Animals
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	1-35
Number of pages	35
ISBN (Electronic)	9780849380525
ISBN (Print)	9780849380303
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/9780849380525
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
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Dawson, D. C., & Liu, X. (2008). Osmoregulation: Some principles of water and solute transport. In Osmotic and Ionic Regulation: Cells and Animals (pp. 1-35). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780849380525

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