The pumpkin is an important kitchen garden crop with very high nutritional value and long lifetime for storage and lot of fiber that acts as one of the best preventive factors from morbid obesity, hypertension, and cardiac diseases. As pretreatment for dehydration, osmotic dehydration creates maximum possible quality in the product by transfer of water outside the tissue of the nutrient. In thi...

Changes in urine and plasma concentrations (sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and total osmotic) and urine production were determined in fish exposed to various concentrations of an ionically active substance, sodium chloride, and a non-electrolyte, mannitol, as well as freshwater. Responses occurred for the most part over a short crisis period preceding establishment of new stable conditio...

Micro-osmotic manipulation was used to determine the influence of osmotic contraction on the expansion potential of individual protoplasts isolated from rye (Secale cereale L. cv Puma) leaves. For protoplasts isolated from leaves of nonacclimated plants (NA protoplasts), osmotic contraction in sufficiently hypertonic solutions (>1.53 osmolal) predisposed the protoplasts to lysis during osmotic ...

Osmotic pressure maintained by liver or kidney tissue measured by its water equilibrium with solutions of sodium chloride remains unchanged from 5 minutes up to 1(1/2) hours following removal of the tissue from the body. Then with autolytic increase of molecular concentration within the cytoplasm of cells it reaches a higher level. Osmotic pressure maintained by pancreas or submaxillary gland, ...

BACKGROUND Intervertebral disc (IVD) cells experience a broad range of physicochemical stimuli under physiologic conditions, including alterations in their osmotic environment. At present, the molecular mechanisms underlying osmotic regulation in IVD cells are poorly understood. This study aims to screen genes affected by changes in osmotic pressure in cells of subjects aged 29 to 63 years old,...

Osmotic stress adversely affects the growth, fruit quality and yield of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai). Increasing the tolerance of watermelon to osmotic stress caused by factors such as high salt and water deficit is an effective way to improve crop survival in osmotic stress environments. Roots are important organs in water absorption and are involved in the initial r...

Osmotic dehydration is a process in which partial water is removed by immersion of water containing cellular solid in a concentrated aqueous solution of high osmotic media for a specified time and temperature. It has potential advantages of less heat damage, good blanching effect, less enzymatic browning, better retention of flavour and energy saving because no phase change occurs. Osmotic dehy...

The osmotic dehydration (OD) process consists of the removal of water from a material during which the solids from the osmotic solution are transported to the material by osmosis. This process is commonly performed in sucrose and salt solutions. Taking into account that a relatively high consumption of those substances might have a negative effect on human health, attempts have been made to sea...