A solid-phase microextraction (SPME) procedure was evaluated for its application in measuring solute release in the headspace (HS) and in the liquid phase (DI) from emulsified and nanostructured materials. Limonene, a hydrophobic flavor compound present in many foods and beverages, was used as a model solute for evaluating the SPME method. Sampling conditions, including SPME fiber type, samplin...

BACKGROUND Membranes fabricated from nominally similar polymers may be markedly different in chemical composition, morphology and geometry. To examine the relative importance of these factors to dialyzer performance, the removal of small and large uraemic toxins was determined for dialyzers containing 'polysulfone' membranes of different composition and morphology, with and without fibre undula...

Apparent molar volumes (φV) and viscosity B-coefficients for glycine in 0.005, 0.010, 0.015, and 0.020 mol dm-3 aqueous silver sulphate (Ag2SO4) solutions have been determined from solution density and viscosity measurements at (298.15, 308.15, and 318.15) K as a function of glycine concentration. The standard partial molar volume (φV0) and experimental slopes (SV*) obtained from the Masson equ...

BACKGROUND Patients with low Body Mass Index (BMI) on maintenance hemodialysis have a higher mortality risk than patients with elevated BMI. We investigated the use of kinetic modeling to test different hypotheses which have been advanced to explain this relationship. METHODS Equations from a three-pool urea-kinetic mathematical model (hepatic mass, extracellular fluid, muscle mass and adipos...

The solute concentration in the subsoil beneath the root zone is an important parameter for leaching assessment. Drainage centrifugation is considered a simple and straightforward method of determining soil solution chemistry. Although several studies have been carried out to determine whether this method is robust, hardly any results are available for loess subsoils. To study the effect of cen...

Studies have been carried out on the movement of salt and water across the small intestine of the rat. Segments of the ileum of anesthetized rats have been perfused in vivo with unbuffered NaCl solutions or isotonic solutions of NaCl and mannitol. Kinetic analysis of movements of Na(24) and Cl(36) has permitted determination of the efflux and influx of Na and Cl. Net water absorption has been m...

A study has been made of the effects of auxin and growth on the ability of Avena coleoptile sections to osmoregulate, i.e. to take up solutes so as to maintain their osmotic concentration, turgor pressure, and growth rate. The high auxin-induced growth rate of Avena coleoptiles is maintained when cells are provided sucrose, glucose, NaCl, or KCl as a source of absorbable solutes, but not when 2...

DELL, RALPH B., AND ROBERT W. WINTERS. Lactate gradients in the kidney of the dog. Am. J. Physiol. 2 I 3(2) : 301-307. r g67.Previous studies have shown that the inner medulla of the antidiuretic kidney has a higher concentration of lactate than the renal cortex, blood, or urine and that medullary lactate rises even higher during osmotic diuresis. The present study was designed to ascertain whe...

Osmosis is usually taught from the point of view of the osmotic pressure developed when solutions of different concentrations of solute are separated by an ideal semipermeable membrane. The osmotic pressure is defined at equilibrium when there is no net flow, and it takes some time to reach this equilibrium. Although the osmotic pressure is certainly important, teaching only this point of view ...

Deverall, P. B., Muss, D. C., Macartney, F. J., and Settle, J. D. (1973). Thorax, 28, 756761. Osmolal balance after open intracardiac operations in children. Changes in plasma osmolality, urine osmolality, urine volume, total osmolal output, and free osmolal output have been studied in children between 2 and 10 years of age. All underwent elective open intracardiac operations. Plasma hypo-osmol...