How Cells Can Control Their Size by Pumping Ions

The ability of all cells to set and regulate their size is a fundamental aspect of cellular physiology. It has been known for sometime but not widely so, that size stability in animal cells is dependent upon the operation of the sodium pump, through the so-called pump-leak mechanism (Tosteson and Ho...

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Main Author: Alan R. Kay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcell.2017.00041/full