Caveolae and cell swelling. Focus on “Stimulation by caveolin-1 of the hypotonicity-induced release of taurine and ATP at basolateral, but not apical, membrane of Caco-2 cells”

Abstract

in mammalian cells under steady-state conditions, intracellular and extracellular osmolarity are equal and water exists at equilibrium across the plasma membrane. Perturbation of the osmotic equilibrium, through physiological processes such as active solute uptake by hepatocytes, or pathological