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Hydration of Cells and Tissues

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Biological cells consist of cytoplasm, which contains many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, enclosed within a membrane. Tissues are composed of anywhere from 20 to 80% water by volume depending on the type of tissue and the location within the tissue. The chapter describes the molecular status of water in cancer, red blood cells, Escherichia coli, Haloarcula marismortui and miscellaneous cells. Picosecond vibrational spectroscopy, dielectric-relaxation spectroscopy, confocal Raman microspectroscopy and other techniques were employed to observe the random orientational motion of water molecules inside living cells. Separate sections are dedicated to the water inside mammalian, food, and plants tissues.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Gertz I. Likhtenshtein

  2. Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Chernogolovka, Russia

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Likhtenshtein, G.I. (2021). Hydration of Cells and Tissues. In: Biological Water. Soft and Biological Matter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82503-4_11

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