A 70-year-old woman was admitted because of disturbance of her consciousness. Physical examinations and laboratory data suggested hypothyroidism. Primary hypothyroidism was subsequently confirmed with endocrinological examinations. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) levels were elevated despite severe hyponatremia. On admission, urinary sodium concentration was 10mEq/l. The patient was treated with sal...

with a mean precipitation rate, much lower than that of the world, iran is among the countries that face severe water challenges. the present study has dealt with the evaluation of hydrochemistry of faryab spring water in hormozgan province, iran. four different composite water samples have been analyzed to detect major anions, cations, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, ph, and s...

Many bacterial species swim using flagella. The flagellar motor couples ion flow across the cytoplasmic membrane to rotation. Ion flow is driven by both a membrane potential (V(m)) and a transmembrane concentration gradient. To investigate their relation to bacterial flagellar motor function we developed a fluorescence technique to measure V(m) in single cells, using the dye tetramethyl rhodami...

Stimulation of intact or desheathed frog sciatic nerves produced an increase in the sodium content and a decrease in the potassium content of this tissue. In desheathed preparations the magnitudes of the changes in ionic contents decreased as the concentration of the potassium in the bathing solution was increased, while changing the external sodium concentration produced small effects on the i...

This is the first of two linked articles that highlight the spurious sodium values that can occur if an indirect ISE technique is used to analyze plasma samples with abnormal protein or lipid concentration. The focus of this first article is spuriously reduced sodium (pseudohyponatremia) due to increased plasma protein or lipid concentration, whilst the subject of the second [1] is spuriously i...

Kjolby M, Bie P. Chronic activation of plasma renin is log-linearly related to dietary sodium and eliminates natriuresis in response to a pulse change in total body sodium. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 294: R17–R25, 2008. First published November 7, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00435.2007.—Responses to acute sodium loading depend on the load and on the level of chronic sodium intake. To ...

NOTE. Distal cysts are defined as cysts with a low sodium concentration, thereby maintaining a steep gradient between cyst fluid and plasma sodium concentrations. Proximal cysts are defined as those with a sodium concentration not greatly different from the plasma concentration [3]. a Detection limit. a Additional members of the Studio Italiano Trapianti e Infezioni are listed at the end of the...

A 6-month-old hyponatremic female with failure to thrive had low urinary sodium concentration. Renal sonography revealed a duplex left collecting system with obstruction of the upper moiety as a blind-ended ectopic ureterocele extending to the bladder base. The echogenicity of the urine within the upper pole system was greater than the bladder contents. We believed that low urinary sodium conce...