Explain how the body detects changes in the osmolality of plasma and describe the regulatory mechanisms by which a proper range of plasma osmolality is maintained.

Q: There is a medical condition called Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti-Diuretic Hormone (SIADH)…

A: Syndrome of excessive antidiuretic hormone secretion causes your body to retain water instead of…

Q: Define plasma osmolality and identify two ways in which plasma osmolality is maintained

A: Osmolality is defined as osmoles per kg of water. It measures the body's electrolyte–water balance.…

Q: Describe the relationship of fluid shifts to certain disease processes and signs and symptoms…

A: The profound changes in vascular permeability and water-electrolyte imbalance is associated with the…

Q: Define diffusion, filtration and reabsorption and the effects on fluid movement.

A: Fluid movement happens via various process such as diffusion, Filteration, reabsorption, absorbtion,…

Q: Patient with dehydration was started on fluid therapy. If 5% dextrose is isoosmotic to plasma what…

A: Dehydration: When you use or lose more fluid than you take in, your body becomes dehydrated because…

Q: When we are able to ignore certain persistent stimuli it's called __________  ___________.

A: Introduction to stimuli -  Stimuli - something that excites action , exertion, quickens action , or…

Q: Why would it be dangerous to administer intravenous fluids that do not have an osmotic pressure…

A: Osmosis is the process of movement of water molecules via a semipermeable membrane, through a…

Q: Reabsorption involves what two methods of transport? Describe each. What determines which route a…

A: The process of movement of solutes and water out of the filtrate and back into your bloodstream is…

Q: Explain the concepts of physiologic and pathophysiologic fluid shifts between the body’s fluid…

A: Osmolality is a measure of the number of dissolved solutes or milliosmoles of solute per kilogram of…

Q: When there is a high circulating ADH, what cells become impermeable to water?

A: Anti-diuretic hormone as various roles to play in kidney functioning, they have a significant…

Q: Describe the types of compensatory regulatory responses

A: Compensatory regulatory responses are physiological and behavioural responses that the body makes to…

Q: If plasma osmolarity is the independent variable and vasopressin release is the dependent variable,…

A: Release of vasopressin increases with the increase in plasma osmolarity and decrease in blood volume…

Q: ADH

A: ADH is antidiuretic hormone that maintains water balance in body. It is also referred as…

Q: A increase  B decrease

A: The intake of water by adult goes into digestive tract and some water gets removed in the form of…

Q: A 1% to 2% shift in osmolality causes how much change in the circulating concentration of AVP?…

A: Osmolality is a measurement of a solution's concentration based on the number of dissolved…