Definition of "osmoprotective" [osmoprotective]

• That protects an organism from osmotic stress (adjective)

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• "Our results show that hypertonicity elicited an early, NFAT5-independent, genotoxic stress response and cell cycle arrest in proliferating lymphocytes, which was followed by an NFAT5-dependent phase in which cells induced osmoprotective gene products, downregulated genotoxic stress markers and reactivated the cell cycle."
• "Trama J, Go WY, Ho SN (2002) The osmoprotective function of the NFAT5 transcription factor in T cell development and activation."
• "− / − T cells, but while the former induced osmoprotective gene products and resumed proliferation with only a moderate viability loss, NFAT5"