| Comments |
"Biological membranes expand elastically by <3% before rupture
(primary source). Beyond this limit, membrane area
must be augmented to avoid lysis. Membrane capacitance
changes suggest that during swelling, membrane is added from
internal stores and that on shrinking, excess membrane is reinternalized
(Sukhorukov et al., 1993 Wan et al., 1995). In neurons
and muscle cells (Krolenko et al., 1995 Reuzeau et al., 1995),
membrane invaginates as vacuole-like dilations (VLDs) during
the shrinking phase of swell–shrink cycles, effects that are mechanically
mediated." |