On The Mechanical and Dynamic Properties
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Antje Kell; Ralf W. Glaser
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In plants the rate of endocytotic-like and exocytotic-like membrane exchange between the plasma membrane and an intracellular membrane reservoir depends upon a mechanical parameter, the tension of the plasma membrane. In this paper we discuss the relevance of this striking property to physiological