“…In addition, similar to most number of studied cells (Matthews and Feldman, 1996;Dmitrieva et al, 2001;Terada et al, 2001;Galvez et al, 2003;Reinehr and Häussinger, 2006;Png et al, 2011;Clouzeau et al, 2012;Burgos et al, 2019), significant shrinkage in hyperosmotic solutions is enough to trigger apoptosis of RVSMC (Orlov et al, 2004a). Because cell volume regulation is mediated by monovalent cations transmembrane gradient (Mongin and Orlov, 2001;Bortner and Cidlowski, 2007;Hoffmann et al, 2009; Pasantes-Morales, 2016; Delpire and Gagnon, 2018), we exposed cells to CTS.…”