Abstract:To counteract environmental stress, many organisms regulate the amounts of molecularly small solutes termed osmolytes. Recent evidences show that osmolytes alter lipid homeostasis, with potential consequences to cardiovascular disease.[1] Although it is known that many osmolytes exert an apparent attractive or repulsive force between self-assembled lipid membranes, all proposed models fail to fully account for the origin of this force. Toward resolving the mechanism by which osmolytes modulate lipid interactio… Show more
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