Plasma membranes

... etc. Our teacher then posed this question that I'm really stumped on, however....What is present in the space between the cell wall and the plasma membrane of a plasmolyzed cell? Is it the 20% sucrose solution that we immersed the cells in? Is it simply water? Or neither? Thanks for the ...

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Well first of all, are you talking about cell walls, or plasma membranes? Assuming you mean plasma membranes, these have a lipid bi-layer (hydrophilic on the outside ...

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... the risk of cardiovascular disease and cholesterol loading into plasma membranes probably has a role in the disease. This in not what I'm working on, but would like ...

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from what I know, all membranes are freely permeable to oxygen, CO2 and other gaseous substances. Membranes ... carrier. It's not an exception to anything, as far as I know. If you expose the plasma membrane to long neutral fats I would say they would diffuse into the cell. What ...

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It is a such contradictory literature on permeability of biological membranes, I would like to see clearly now. What substances can FREELY travel ... cells: does the carrier release them upon contacting the target cells' plasma membranes and after diffusion though the membrane would another carrier ...

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