Erythrocyte dehydration is an important feature of sickle cell disease, leading to increased sickle hemoglobin polymerization and decreased red blood cell survival. Substantial in vivo dehydration appears to occur in reticulocytes or in an even younger subset of reticulocytes that are positive for transferrin receptor. Previous studies have suggested both sickling-dependent and sickling-indepen...

BACKGROUND Dehydration in older patients has long been considered a significant health problem because it implies increased morbidity and mortality. However, dehydration is detected by a combination of physical signs and blood tests. For older people dwelling at home and in nursing homes, a simple and non-invasive method for detecting dehydration by caregivers is needed. The total body resistan...

Plants respond to dehydration stress and tolerate water-deficit status through complex physiological and cellular processes. Many genes are induced by water deficit. Abscisic acid (ABA) plays important roles in tolerance to dehydration stress by inducing many stress genes. ABA is synthesized de novo in response to dehydration. Most of the genes involved in ABA biosynthesis have been identified,...

Research applications of osmotic dehydration to food processing in technology and in component transfer mechanisms are being carried out in several countries. Osmotic dehydration is a traditional process applied to food dewatering. It leads to attractive products that are ready to eat or can be applied as a pretreatment to the next process such as drying or freezing. The new osmotically dehydra...

The objective of this study was to examine the accuracy of the assessment of clinical dehydration in children with type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). DKA remains the single most common cause of diabetesrelated death in childhood (1). Accurate assessment and management of dehydration is the cornerstone of DKA treatment (1,2). The assessment of the degree of dehydration has traditio...

The internal surface area of hexagonal (soluble) primary anhydrite CaSO4 produced by dehydration of gypsum decreases by about 70 % when the anhydrite is successively subjected to rehydration and dehydration at room temperature in humid air and in vacuum respectively. In the rehydration step, the hemihydrate is formed; its dehydration yields secondary anhydrite. Additional hydration-dehydration ...

The substances responsible for saffron’s characteristic quality are crocins, picrocrocin, and safranal. The drying process is critical to the saffron quality as measured by levels of secondary metabolites, crocin (color and anti-tumor properties), picrocrocin (taste), and safranal (aroma). Four different dehydration methods were evaluated: Iranian traditional method (room temperature); dehy...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of interventions and environmental factors on increasing fluid intake or reducing dehydration risk in older people living in long-term care facilities. DESIGN Systematic review of intervention and observational studies. DATA SOURCES Thirteen electronic databases were searched from inception until September 2013 in all languages. References of included papers...