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This image represents the equilibration of osmotic stress among the phase under study and the external stressing solution in vast excess across a semipermeable membrane. As the external osmotic pressure stresses the subphase, water (as well as small solutes) is exchanged across the semipermeable membrane.

Culturing cells in vitro

Receptors

Receptors relay information into the cell through the plasma membrane