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by neurostimulant 2210 days ago
High hydrostatic pressure seem to affect cell morphology, possibly due to changes in protein shapes while under extreme pressure. I only did some cursory googling and found several research papers about how pressure affecting cell morphology, for example this one on epithelial cells: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3052872/

> At atmospheric pressure, cells were flat and well attached.

> Exposure of cells to pressures of 290 atm or greater caused cell rounding and retraction from the substrate.