Human beings are mostly water, ranging from about 75 percent of body mass in infants to about 50–60 percent in adult men and women, to as low as 45 percent in old age. An appropriate balance of solutes inside and outside of cells must be maintained to ensure normal function. As a result, water will move into and out of cells and tissues, depending on the relative concentrations of the water and solutes found there. Osmosis is basically the diffusion of water from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration, along an osmotic gradient across a semi-permeable membrane. In the body, water moves through semi-permeable membranes of cells and from one compartment of the body to another by a process called osmosis. For instance, sodium ions (Na +) and chloride ions (Cl -) are often referred to as electrolytes. Often in medicine, a mineral dissociated from a salt that carries an electrical charge (an ion) is called and electrolyte. In the human body, solutes vary in different parts of the body, but may include proteins-including those that transport lipids, carbohydrates, and, very importantly, electrolytes.
The dissolved substances in a solution are called solutes. The chemical reactions of life take place in aqueous solutions.
Body Fluids and Fluid Compartmentsīy the end of this section, you will be able to: Understanding the ways in which the body maintains these critical balances is key to understanding good health. The interactions of various aqueous solutions-solutions in which water is the solvent-are continuously monitored and adjusted by a large suite of interconnected feedback systems in your body. Water is the most ubiquitous substance in the chemical reactions of life. Because metabolism relies on reactions that are all interconnected, any disruption might affect multiple organs or even organ systems. Too much or too little of a single substance can disrupt your bodily functions. In the human body, the substances that participate in chemical reactions must remain within narrows ranges of concentration. Homeostasis, or the maintenance of constant conditions in the body, is a fundamental property of all living things. Identify the normal range of blood pH and name the conditions where one has a blood pH that is either too high or too low.Explain why bicarbonate must be conserved rather than reabsorbed in the kidney.Define buffer and discuss the role of buffers in the body.Identify the six ions most important to the function of the body.Define plasma osmolality and identify two ways in which plasma osmolality is maintained.Identify the body’s main fluid compartments.(credit: “Edwin Martinez1”/Wikimedia Commons)Īfter studying this chapter, you will be able to: An athlete must continuously replace the water and electrolytes lost in sweat.
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These findings suggest that under heat-induced dehydration, both the extra- and intracellular fluid compartments of muscle and skin play an important role in the compensation of water loss and in the maintenance of circulation to the brain and liver.Figure 26.1 Venus Williams Perspiring on the Tennis Court The body has critically important mechanisms for balancing the intake and output of bodily fluids. tract had the highest tendency to lose water while the brain and liver showed the least. As to the water loss from organs, 40% of the whole body water loss came from muscle, 30% from skin, 14% from bone, and 14% from viscera. The decrease of ISF was proportional to that of PV and the water loss from ICF was caused by an increase in plasma osmolality. The 10% loss of body weight caused a decrease in TBW by 17% from the control value 41% of this loss was from ICF, 47% from ISF, and 12% from PV.
Total body water (TBW), intracellular (ICF), and interstitial (ISF) fluid volumes were calculated from these data. The volumes of total water (TW), extracellular fluid (ECF), and plasma (PV) were determined both on individual tissues and on the whole body using the constant dry weight as well as 51Cr-EDTA and 125I-RIHSA dilution methods. Dehydration amounting to about 10% of body weight was induced in adult male rats by exposure to a hot, dry environment (D.B.T., 36 degrees C R.H., 20%) over 6 to 8 hr.
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