title: Osmotic gradients across snail epidermis: evidence for a water barrier.
abstract: Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
mesh_terms: D005615:Freezing; D009995:Osmosis; D009997:Osmotic Pressure; D012867:Skin / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism*; D012908:Snails / Q000378:metabolism*; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014867:Water