This protein regulates gene expression induced by osmotic stress in mammalian cells.

Tissues that comprise the kidneys, skin, and eyes are often subjected to osmotic stresses.

One method utilized has been to study how vesicles swell in response to osmotic stress.

He suggested that damage to red blood cells during freezing was due to osmotic stress.

Other species can resist high osmotic stress and grow, for example, on salted fish, and a few ascomycetes are aquatic.

In plants, it is used to induce osmotic stress.

Expression of the myo-inositol transport protein is regulated by osmotic stress.

During and subsequent to digestion of the cell wall, the protoplast becomes very sensitive to osmotic stress.

Current research also suggests that osmotic stress in cells and tissues may significantly contribute to many human diseases.

In eukaryotes, calcium acts as one of the primary regulators of osmotic stress.