Osmotic Gradients across Snail Epidermis: Evidence for a Water Barrier
- 22 February 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 183 (4126), 759-760
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.183.4126.759
Abstract
Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.Keywords
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