Attention may be directed to a paper by Prof. A. Findlay on osmotic pressure and the theory of solutions, which has recently been published in Scientia. It has sometimes been suggested that the ...

IT has long been the custom in many laboratories to make up certain fixatives in saline solutions, but the value of this practice has recently been questioned 1 on the ground that the osmotic pressure ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Apr. 15, 1920), pp. 211-217 (7 pages) ...

Chemotherapy is known for its painful side-effects. It also has limitations when the cancer has metastasized to the lymph nodes. The lymphatic drug delivery system, where anticancer drugs are injected ...

In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...

Osmotic systems offer versatility for delivering drugs with varied properties and dosage requirements. The design and development of controlled-release drug-delivery systems have been traditionally ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A new method for the determination of osmotic pressure in appropriate plant tissues is described. This method is based on the observation that ...

In November 2009, Norwegian state owned electricity company Statkraft opened the world’s first osmotic power plant prototype, which generates electricity from the difference in the salt concentration ...