The PVT properties of concentrated aqueous electrolytes. VIII. The volume changes for mixing the major sea salts at an ionic strength of 3.0 from 5 to 95�C

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 491-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie M. Connaughton ◽  
Frank J. Millero

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 837-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Millero ◽  
Leslie M. Connaughton ◽  
Faina Vinokurova ◽  
Peter V. Chetirkin




1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1007-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie M. Connaughton ◽  
Frank J. Millero ◽  
Kenneth S. Pitzer


1962 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard G. Davies ◽  
Michael Spencer

Observations have been made on the role of a divalent cation (calcium ion) during OsO4 fixation of nuclei of frog erythrocytes, mainly after isolation from cells. The volume of the nucleus depends partly on the molecular interaction of charged macromolecules, is controlled by the ionic strength of the medium, and hence may be used as a guide in attempts to preserve structure. When the isolation and fixation media contain 0.01 M calcium at pH 6.3 the volume changes, in the light microscope, during processing are small. When the fixative does not contain these ions, reversible volume changes occur during fixation and dehydration. The chromatin of nuclei processed with minimal volume change appears, in the electron microscope, to contain fine dots and lines about 20 to 40 A in diameter, relatively close together. The chromatin structure of nuclei in which volume changes have occurred consists of dense irregularly shaped patches, relatively far apart, and ranging in diameter from about 200 A down to the limits of visibility (20 to 30 A). It is suggested that the latter structure is a precipitation artefact.



Author(s):  
Nanacha Afifi Igbokwe ◽  
Ikechukwu Onyebuchi Igbokwe

AbstractHeparinised blood was exposed to osmotic lysis in hypotonic buffered saline to evaluate erythrocyte membrane stability. When KThe erythrocyte osmotic fragility curve in saline was hyperbolic even when the ionic concentration was reduced by 50% with saccharides. Haemolysis was higher with EDTA than heparinised blood at saline concentrations of 90 and 150–180 mosmol/L. The fragility curve was sigmoidal and shifted to the left when saline was completely substituted with a saccharide. The non-ionic saccharides increased erythrocyte osmotic resistance linearly (r=0.88; p<0.02) from median to minimal hyposmolarities (150–300 mosmol/L) and reduced the osmolyte concentration at median fragility by 36%. No effect occurred at <30–120 mosmol/L and >90% fragility; and saccharide concentrations were almost non-lytic at comparable saline concentrations evoking <10% haemolysis. Fragilities were neither affected by period (30–60 min) of incubation nor the type of saccharide used.In this study, the variation in osmotic stability of caprine erythrocytes was linked to ionic strength of the suspending extracellular media which seemed to exert an influence through transmembrane ion fluxes and regulatory volume changes in erythrocytes.



2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (80) ◽  
pp. 11320-11323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Qian ◽  
Taka-Aki Asoh ◽  
Hiroshi Uyama

A novel sea cucumber-mimicking bacterial cellulose composite hydrogel shows stiffness changes in response to ionic strength without significant volume changes.



1999 ◽  
Vol 276 (1) ◽  
pp. C210-C220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Guizouarn ◽  
René Motais

If swelling of a cell is induced by a decrease in external medium tonicity, the regulatory response is more complex than if swelling of similar magnitude is due to salt uptake. The present results provide an explanation. In fish erythrocytes, two distinct transport pathways were swelling activated: a channel of broad specificity and a K+-Cl−cotransporter. Each was activated by a specific signal: the channel by a decrease in intracellular ionic strength and the K+-Cl−cotransporter by cell enlargement. A decrease in ionic strength also affected K+-Cl−cotransport activity, but by acting as a negative modulator of the cotransport. Thus cells swollen by salt accumulation respond by activating exclusively the K+-Cl−cotransport, leading to a Cl−-dependent K+ loss. By contrast, cells swollen by electrolyte dilution respond by activating both pathways, leading to a reduced loss of electrolytes and a large loss of taurine. Thus two swelling-sensitive pathways, differently regulated, would allow control of the ionic composition of a cell exposed to different volume perturbations.



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