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What is the difference in mosM and mOsm units, if there is any at all?
I'm reading Agre's paper on aquaporins [1] and he uses a unit called "mosM" throughout the paper, for example:
… ocytes were transferred from 200 mosM to 70 mosM modified Barth's buffer.
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Why does osmolarity take into account both penetrating and non-penetrating solutes?
According to Wikipedia:
… osmolarity takes into account the total concentration of penetrating solutes and non-penetrating solutes, whereas tonicity takes into account the total concentration of non-...
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