value and -therefore any improvement in homoeossatic control would have been obvious during pregnancy. Thus our argument that the shape of the curve may be a more importa indicator of homoeostatc control than any actual level reached appears to be supported by these cases. It is probable that factors controlling fasting blood glucose concentrations are separate from those affecting homoeostatic...

A trial was made of hyaluronidase and potassium chloride as adjuvants for epidural analgesia in 137 patients. Lignocaine hydrochloride in 2 per cent concentration with adrenaline 1/200,000 was used as the control solution in 61 cases; hyaluronidase, 5 USP units/ml, was added in 26 cases, and 1 per cent potassium chloride was added in 50 cases. Hyaluronidase tended to impair the quality of senso...

To compare findings in a hospital trial of hypotensive drugs with those in a general practice trial several patients with mild hypertension were studied at the same time in hospital and in general practice. They received bendrofluazide and potassium chloride or bendrofluazide, potassium chloride, and reserpine according to a double-blind crossover protocol, and blood biochemical values were stu...

background: potassium citrate (k‑cit) is one of the medications widely used in patients with urolithiasis. however, in some cases with calcium oxalate (caox) urolithiasis, the significant response to alkaline therapy with k‑cit alone does not occur. there is scarce published data on the effect of magnesium chloride (mg‑cl2) on urolithiasis in pediatric patients. this study aimed to evaluate the...

background: strontium, zinc, and potassium salts have been demonstrated to inhibit irritation and infl ammation when applied topically. particularly, strontium chloride (sc) and potassium nitrate (kn) are reported to reduce skin and tooth sensitivity.the aim of the present study was to compare the anti-irritant eff ects of four inorganic salts and assign the ingredient which can suppress skin i...

BACKGROUND The concentrated potassium chloride injection is a high-alert medication and replacing it with a pre-mixed formulation can reduce the risks associated with its use. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of patients receiving different potassium chloride formulations available at a private institution. The study also assessed the effectiveness and safety ...

The transient increase in cation permeability observed in duck red cells incubated with norepinephrine has been shown to be a linked, bidirectional, co-transport of sodium plus potassium. This pathway, sensitive to loop diuretics such as furosemide, was found to have a [Na + K] stoichiometry of 1:1 under all conditions tested. Net sodium efflux was inhibited by increasing external potassium, an...

Unlike the NaCl-secreting salt glands of many birds and reptiles, the nasal salt glands of lizards can secrete potassium as well as sodium, with either chloride or bicarbonate as the accompanying anion. The factors responsible for initiating secretion by the gland and the rates of cation and anion secretion were studied in the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis. Lizards were given combinations...

Twenty patients with mild or moderate essential hypertension and not receiving any drug treatment, who had been moderately restricting their sodium intake to around 70 mmol(mEq) a day for at least one month and whose mean blood pressure was then 163/103 mm Hg, were entered into a double blind, randomised crossover study to compare one month's treatment with slow release potassium chloride table...