ZUR WIRKUNG VON ALDOSTERON UND CORTICOSTERON AUF DEN ELEKTROLYT- UND WASSERGEHALT BINDEGEWEBIGER ORGANE DER RATTE

1964 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Kriegel ◽  
Wilhelm Dirscherl
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Interstitial Water ◽  
Sodium Content ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Interstitial Space ◽  
Interstitial Tissue ◽  
Connective Tissues ◽  
Sodium Potassium ◽  
Water Contents ◽  
And Cartilage

ABSTRACT An attempt was made to elucidate the distribution of electrolytes and water in connective tissues of the rat by estimating the sodium, potassium and water content in muscle, liver, skin, cartilage, aorta, tendon and serum. Animal groups treated in the following manner were compared: 1. replacement of drinking water by 0.9 % saline, 2. adrenalectomy, 3. adrenalectomy and saline, 4. adrenalectomy, saline and treatment with aldosterone (25 μg d-aldosterone-monoacetate per day), 5. adrenalectomy, saline and treatment with corticosterone (2—4 mg per day). In the tissues investigated the electrolyte and water contents varied independently and differently in some cases. Sodium content or sodium depots respectively of the tissues were influenced in a variable manner. After administration of saline there was even a significant loss of amounts of sodium in the tendon and aorta of normal animals. After adrenal-ectomy and the development of severe insufficiency, the sodium content apart from the interstitial space of cellular tissues, was lowered only in the aorta. Moreover, adrenal insufficiency, partly compensated by administration of saline, led to loss of sodium in skin and cartilage, the latter loosing the largest relative amount. Treatment of adrenalectomized animals with aldosterone normalized the sodium content in all the connective tissues and caused retention of sodium in the cellular tissues. Adrenalectomized animals showed an increased water content in the connective as well as in the cellular tissues. The interstitial water especially in cartilage did not appear to be bound very tightly. After treatment with aldosterone a retention of water (without simultaneous retention of sodium in the connective tissues) could be observed in all tissues, whereas corticosterone normalized the water content in the connective tissues. Potassium was found to be increased in all tissues of markedly deficient animals. In addition retention of K in the connective tissues (interstitial space) requires a simultaneous imbibition or loosening of the interstitial tissue.

The Response of the Human Leucocyte to Alterations in Extracellular Osmolality

1973 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patrick ◽  
P. J. Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Sodium Content ◽  
Passive Movement ◽  
Human Erythrocytes ◽  
Intracellular Sodium ◽  
Potassium Content ◽  
Sodium Potassium ◽  
Permeable Membrane ◽  
Sodium And Potassium

1. The effect of variations in extracellular osmolality from 249 to 345 mosmol/kg upon the sodium, potassium and water content of human leucocytes has been studied. 2. Similar studies were performed using human erythrocytes. 3. Changes in the leucocyte water content were not explicable in terms of passive movement of water across an ‘ideal’ semi-permeable membrane. 4. Hypo-osmolal swelling was associated with a rise in intracellular sodium content and hyperosmolal shrinkage was associated with a fall in intracellular sodium content. 5. There were no significant changes in sodium and potassium content of the erythrocyte with altered external osmolality.

Cell Sodium, Potassium and Water in Uraemia and the Effects of Regular Dialysis as Studied in the Leucocyte

1974 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 583-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patrick ◽  
N. F. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Important Determinant ◽  
Potassium Concentration ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Sodium Content ◽  
Intracellular Sodium ◽  
Potassium Content ◽  
Cell Water ◽  
Sodium Potassium ◽  
Water Contents

1. The leucocyte has been used as a model for the study of intracellular sodium, potassium and water in uraemia. The advantages of this cell are described. 2. In undialysed patients with advanced renal failure leucocyte sodium and water contents were significantly greater than normal. Leucocyte potassium content (mmol/kg of dry solids) and concentration (mmol/l of cell water) were reduced. 3. In patients receiving regular dialysis leucocyte water was significantly reduced. Leucocyte potassium content was also reduced in this group, but leucocyte potassium concentration in cell water had returned to normal. 4. In the normal subjects and also in the dialysed patients leucocyte water correlated better with potassium than with sodium content. In contrast, in the undialysed uraemic patients leucocyte water correlated better with sodium than with potassium content, indicating that the increased cell sodium was an important determinant of the increased cell water in this group.

scholarly journals Apoptosis in the Extraosseous Calcification Process

Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Federica Boraldi ◽  
Francesco Demetrio Lofaro ◽  
Daniela Quaglino
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Matrix Vesicles ◽  
Apoptotic Bodies ◽  
Connective Tissues ◽  
Mineralization Process ◽  
Mitochondrial Alterations ◽  
Age Related ◽  
And Oxidative Stress ◽  
And Cartilage

Extraosseous calcification is a pathologic mineralization process occurring in soft connective tissues (e.g., skin, vessels, tendons, and cartilage). It can take place on a genetic basis or as a consequence of acquired chronic diseases. In this last case, the etiology is multifactorial, including both extra- and intracellular mechanisms, such as the formation of membrane vesicles (e.g., matrix vesicles and apoptotic bodies), mitochondrial alterations, and oxidative stress. This review is an overview of extraosseous calcification mechanisms focusing on the relationships between apoptosis and mineralization in cartilage and vascular tissues, as these are the two tissues mostly affected by a number of age-related diseases having a progressively increased impact in Western Countries.

Ionic Activities of Sodium, Potassium, and Chloride in Human Serum

1968 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 859-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Dahms ◽  
Robert Rock ◽  
David Seligson
Keyword(s):  
Human Serum ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Activity Coefficients ◽  
Activity Concentration ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Sodium Potassium ◽  
Conversion Factors ◽  
Disease States ◽  
Molar Activity

Abstract Ionic activities of sodium, potassium, and chloride in serums of 26 hospitalized patients were determined with ion-specific electrodes. Comparison of the activities with the corresponding concentrations shows that the two most important parameters influencing the molar activity coefficients of these ions are the water content of serum and the binding between albumin and chloride. Quantitative expressions for activity-concentration conversion factors are given. Calculations show that the conversion factors vary significantly in disease states due to changes in protein.

The effect of dehydration and rehydration on salt loss in the second-stage larvae of Anguina tritici

Parasitology ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Womersley
Keyword(s):  
Salt Content ◽  
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry ◽  
Sodium Content ◽  
Sodium Potassium ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Absorption Spectrophotometry ◽  
Nematode Cuticle ◽  
Calcium Loss ◽  
Potassium Magnesium

SUMMARYThe effect of repeated dehydration and hydration on the salt content of 2nd-stage larvae of Anguina tritici was studied. The sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium contents of the larvae after subjection to varying periods of desiccation and rehydration were determined with atomic absorption spectrophotometry and flame photometry. External cation concentrations on the cuticle of the head, middle body and tail regions were determined semi-quantitatively with scanning electron microscopy in conjunction with X-ray analysis (EDAX). Salt concentrations decreased with each dehydration/rehydration cycle. The greatest loss occurred on revival from the first desiccation period. The results indicated that A. tritici was incapable of regulating it's internal sodium content during revival, but suggested a limited ability to control potassium, magnesium and calcium loss. Salt loss through the nematode cuticle was restricted to potassium and calcium during desiccation. The salt losses encountered are discussed in relation to nematode osmoregulation and to the survival of the nematode in the anhydrobiotic state.

MITIGATION YIELD SCALED METHANE EMISSION FROM RICE GROWN IN WATER STRESS CONDITIONS WITH BIOCHAR AND SILICATE AMENDMENTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD ASLAM ALI ◽  
SANJIT CHANDRA BARMAN ◽  
MD. ASHRAFUL ISLAM KHAN ◽  
MD. BADIUZZAMAN KHAN ◽  
HAFSA JAHAN HIYA
Keyword(s):  
Water Stress ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Soil Water Content ◽  
Field Capacity ◽  
Saturated Soil ◽  
Rice Grain ◽  
Standing Water ◽  
Water Contents ◽  
Soil Water Contents

Climate change and water scarcity may badly affect existing rice production system in Bangladesh. With a view to sustain rice productivity and mitigate yield scaled CH4 emission in the changing climatic conditions, a pot experiment was conducted under different soil water contents, biochar and silicate amendments with inorganic fertilization (NPKS). In this regard, 12 treatments combinations of biochar, silicate and NPKS fertilizer along with continuous standing water (CSW), soil saturation water content and field capacity (100% and 50%) moisture levels were arranged into rice planted potted soils. Gas samples were collected from rice planted pots through Closed Chamber technique and analyzed by Gas Chromatograph. This study revealed that seasonal CH4 emissions were suppressed through integrated biochar and silicate amendments with NPKS fertilizer (50–75% of the recommended doze), while increased rice yield significantly at different soil water contents. Biochar and silicate amendments with NPKS fertilizer (50% of the recommended doze) increased rice grain yield by 10.9%, 18.1%, 13.0% and 14.2%, while decreased seasonal CH4 emissions by 22.8%, 20.9%, 23.3% and 24.3% at continuous standing water level (CSW) (T9), at saturated soil water content (T10), at 100% field capacity soil water content (T11) and at 50% field capacity soil water content (T12), respectively. Soil porosity, soil redox status, SOC and free iron oxide contents were improved with biochar and silicate amendments. Furthermore, rice root oxidation activity (ROA) was found more dominant in water stress condition compared to flooded and saturated soil water contents, which ultimately reduced seasonal CH4 emissions as well as yield scaled CH4 emission. Conclusively, soil amendments with biochar and silicate fertilizer may be a rational practice to reduce the demand for inorganic fertilization and mitigate CH4 emissions during rice cultivation under water stress drought conditions.

scholarly journals Effect of Nano-Carbon on Water Holding Capacity in a Sandy Soil of the Loess Plateau

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beibei Zhou ◽  
Xiaopeng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Sandy Soil ◽  
Water Retention ◽  
Soil Mixture ◽  
Cumulative Infiltration ◽  
Nano Carbon ◽  
Water Contents ◽  
Soil Water Contents

The poor water retention capacity of sandy soils commonly aggregate soil erosion and ecological environment on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Due to its strong capacity for absorption and large specific surface area, the use of nanocarbon made of coconut shell as a soil amendment that could improve water retention was investigated. Soil column experiments were conducted in which a layer of nanocarbon mixed well with the soil was formed at a depth of 20 cm below the soil surface. Four different nanocarbon contents by weight (0%, 0.1%, 0.5%, and 1%) and five thicknesses of the nanocarbon- soil mixture layer ranging from 1 to 5 cm were considered. Cumulative infiltration and soil water content distributions were determined when water was added to soil columns. Soil Water Characteristic Curves (SWCC) were obtained using the centrifuge method. The principal results showed that the infiltration rate and cumulative infiltration increased with the increases of nanocarbon contents, to the thicknesses of the nano carbon-soil mixture layer. Soil water contents that below the soil-nano carbon layer decreased sharply. Both the Brooks-Corey and van Genuchten models could describe well the SWCC of the disturbed sandy soil with various nano carbon contents. Both the saturated water content (θs), residual water content (θr) and empirical parameter (α) increased with increasing nano carbon content, while the pore-size distribution parameter (n) decreased. The available soil water contents were efficiently increased with the increase in nanocarbon contents.

scholarly journals Synchrotron FTIR imaging of OH in quartz mylonites

Solid Earth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1025-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas K. Kronenberg ◽  
Hasnor F. B. Hasnan ◽  
Caleb W. Holyoke III ◽  
Richard D. Law ◽  
Zhenxian Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Point Defects ◽  
Fluid Inclusions ◽  
Hanging Wall ◽  
Molecular Water ◽  
Main Central Thrust ◽  
Absorption Bands ◽  
Uniform Equilibrium ◽  
Quartz Grains ◽  
Water Contents

Abstract. Previous measurements of water in deformed quartzites using conventional Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) instruments have shown that water contents of larger grains vary from one grain to another. However, the non-equilibrium variations in water content between neighboring grains and within quartz grains cannot be interrogated further without greater measurement resolution, nor can water contents be measured in finely recrystallized grains without including absorption bands due to fluid inclusions, films, and secondary minerals at grain boundaries.Synchrotron infrared (IR) radiation coupled to a FTIR spectrometer has allowed us to distinguish and measure OH bands due to fluid inclusions, hydrogen point defects, and secondary hydrous mineral inclusions through an aperture of 10 µm for specimens > 40 µm thick. Doubly polished infrared (IR) plates can be prepared with thicknesses down to 4–8 µm, but measurement of small OH bands is currently limited by strong interference fringes for samples < 25 µm thick, precluding measurements of water within individual, finely recrystallized grains. By translating specimens under the 10 µm IR beam by steps of 10 to 50 µm, using a software-controlled x − y stage, spectra have been collected over specimen areas of nearly 4.5 mm2. This technique allowed us to separate and quantify broad OH bands due to fluid inclusions in quartz and OH bands due to micas and map their distributions in quartzites from the Moine Thrust (Scotland) and Main Central Thrust (Himalayas).Mylonitic quartzites deformed under greenschist facies conditions in the footwall to the Moine Thrust (MT) exhibit a large and variable 3400 cm−1 OH absorption band due to molecular water, and maps of water content corresponding to fluid inclusions show that inclusion densities correlate with deformation and recrystallization microstructures. Quartz grains of mylonitic orthogneisses and paragneisses deformed under amphibolite conditions in the hanging wall to the Main Central Thrust (MCT) exhibit smaller broad OH bands, and spectra are dominated by sharp bands at 3595 to 3379 cm−1 due to hydrogen point defects that appear to have uniform, equilibrium concentrations in the driest samples. The broad OH band at 3400 cm−1 in these rocks is much less common. The variable water concentrations of MT quartzites and lack of detectable water in highly sheared MCT mylonites challenge our understanding of quartz rheology. However, where water absorption bands can be detected and compared with deformation microstructures, OH concentration maps provide information on the histories of deformation and recovery, evidence for the introduction and loss of fluid inclusions, and water weakening processes.

Effects of differential drying rates on viability retention of recalcitrant seeds of Ekebergia capensis

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. W. Pammenter ◽  
Valerie Greggains ◽  
J. I. Kioko ◽  
J. Wesley-Smith ◽  
Patricia Berjak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Exponential Function ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Drying Rate ◽  
Recalcitrant Seeds ◽  
Tissue Water ◽  
Initial Water ◽  
Viability Loss ◽  
Drying Rates ◽  
Water Contents

AbstractThe drying rate of whole seeds of Ekebergia capensis (Meliaceae) was shown to influence the response to desiccation, with rapidly dried seeds surviving to lower water contents. Short-term rapid drying (to water contents higher than those leading to viability loss) actually increased the rate of germination. The form of the time course of decline of axis water content varied with drying rate; slow drying could be described by an exponential function, whereas with rapid drying initial water loss was faster than predicted by an exponential function. These observations suggest that slow drying brought about homogeneous dehydration and that the rapid drying was uneven across the tissue. This raised the possibility that the different responses to dehydration were a function of different distributions of water in the axis tissue under the two drying regimes. However, ultrastructural observations indicated that different deleterious processes may be occurring under the different drying treatments. It was tentatively concluded that a major cause of viability loss in slowly dried material was likely to be a consequence of aqueous-based processes leading to considerable membrane degradation. Uneven distribution of tissue water could not be rejected as a contributory cause of the survival of rapidly dried seeds to low bulk water contents. The differential response to dehydration at different drying rates implies that it is not possible to determine a ‘critical water content’ for viability loss by recalcitrant seeds.

scholarly journals An empirical model for describing the influence of water content and concentration of sulfamethoxazole (antibiotic) in soil on the total net CO2 efflux

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-358
Author(s):  
Miroslav Fér ◽  
Radka Kodešová ◽  
Barbora Kalkušová ◽  
Aleš Klement ◽  
Antonín Nikodem
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Soil Water Content ◽  
Solution Treatment ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Co2 Efflux ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Water Contents ◽  
Soil Water Contents

AbstractThe aim of the study was to describe the impact of the soil water content and sulfamethoxazole, SUL, (antibiotic) concentration in soil on the net CO2 efflux. Soil samples were taken from topsoils of a Haplic Fluvisol and Haplic Chernozem. Soil samples were packed into the steel cylinders. The net CO2 efflux was measured from these soil columns after application of fresh water or SUL solution at different soil water contents. The experiments were carried out in dark at 20°C. The trends in the net CO2 efflux varied for different treatments. While initially high values for water treatment exponentially decreased in time, values for solution treatment increased during the first 250–650 minutes and then decreased. The total net CO2 effluxes measured for 20 hours related to the soil water content followed the second order polynomial functions. The maximal values were measured for the soil water content of 0.15 cm3 cm−3 (Haplic Fluvisol with water or solution, Haplic Chernozem with solution) and 0.11 cm3 cm−3 (Haplic Chernozem with water). The ratios between values measured for solution and water at the same soil water contents exponentially increased with increasing SUL concentration in soils. This proved the increasing stimulative influence of SUL on soil microbial activity.

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