Most ciliates also have one or more prominent contractile vacuoles, which collect water and expel it from the cell to maintain osmotic pressure, or in some function to maintain ionic balance.

To maintain ionic balance, every NO taken into the root must be accompanied by either the uptake of a cation or the excretion of an anion.

He determined their tolerance for changes in the salinity and the ionic balance of the surrounding water, and analysed the water relations of land gastropods.

Their success in colonizing different habitats is due to physiological, behavioral, and morphological adaptations to water availability, as well as ionic and thermal balance.

The ionic balance of his body was still adjusting, and the chemical rush of anger was strong enough to propel him forward out of the tank in one movement.

Chlorine is necessary for osmosis and ionic balance; it also plays a role in photosynthesis.

I was able to partially stabilize the ionic balance across her cell membranes, Captain.

Astrocytes help to maintain ionic balance in the extracellular space in the brain.

Replies: To give you an IV with just water would throw the ionic balance in your plasma out of homeostasis, even more so than it likely is if you are dehydrated to that point.

The function of these cells is to regulate the osmotic pressure of the worm, and maintain its ionic balance.