The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them ...

Plant cells use vacuoles to adjust their size and turgor pressure. Vacuoles usually account for changes in cell size when the cytoplasmic volume stays constant. Some vacuoles have specialized ...

Guard cells surrounding each stoma regulate this process by altering their turgor pressure through ion transport, with ionic potassium being the predominant osmotic solute. In Arabidopsis ...