Sentences with phrase «as osmotic»

An effective concentration is not likely to be the same in the body, particulary due to conditions such as osmotic pressure and dilution factors.

Not exact matches

In some sense osmotic, his weaving is most effectively undertaken in a setting such as the Andean countryside, where nature's superabundance is readily available to human faculties.

This may be because pregnant women require slightly more salt to maintain osmotic pressure (or fluid balance) as their blood volume expands.

The new procedure may lead to a cheap and easy way to create cow «drug factories» that reliably produce human proteins — such as albumin, which restores osmotic pressure after major blood loss — in their milk.

As water is lost out of the leaf cells through transpiration, a gradient is established whereby the movement of water out of the cell raises its osmotic concentration and, therefore, its suction pressure.

It might be a sign of the «peripheral sink» mechanism, through which the capture of AS in the circulation creates a kind of «osmotic pressure» that draws the more concentrated AS on the other side of the «membrane» of the blood - brain barrier (Figure 3, middle).

This process triggers the production of lactate and pyruvate, which contribute to increasing the muscles cells as a result of their osmotic activity.

Because it means water absorption is heavily dependent on osmotic gradients - if the gut is filled with large quantities of mineral ions (particularly sodium), free glucose, etc., water will remain in the gut to serve as a buffer.

For Maximum Effect The salt concentration has to be at least the same as the one of your body fluids (approximately 1 %) to activate the osmotic exchange ratio.

As bacteria in the large intestine ferment the remaining ones, they 1) produce an osmotic effect, sucking in water and 2) churn out methane, carbon dioxide and other by - products as metaboliteAs bacteria in the large intestine ferment the remaining ones, they 1) produce an osmotic effect, sucking in water and 2) churn out methane, carbon dioxide and other by - products as metaboliteas metabolites.

This arises as the undigested foods ferment, and in some cases may cause osmotic diarrhea.

The osmotic effect that FODMAPs can have in the intestine can help with constipation — but unfortunately also often contribute to other symptoms such as debilitating gas and bloating for those with IBS.

The osmotic force is twice as high for lactulose as for frutooligosaccharide.

As blood glucose levels increase, glucose also increases within the aqueous humor, glucose readily diffuses across the lens capsule, an aldose reductase pathway converts glucose to sorbitol, sorbitol accumulates within the lens as it can not diffuse through lens cell membranes, the osmotic gradient increases, water enters the lens and irreversibly changes the lens structure via lens fiber swelling and rupture, vacuole formation, and clinically evident cataracAs blood glucose levels increase, glucose also increases within the aqueous humor, glucose readily diffuses across the lens capsule, an aldose reductase pathway converts glucose to sorbitol, sorbitol accumulates within the lens as it can not diffuse through lens cell membranes, the osmotic gradient increases, water enters the lens and irreversibly changes the lens structure via lens fiber swelling and rupture, vacuole formation, and clinically evident cataracas it can not diffuse through lens cell membranes, the osmotic gradient increases, water enters the lens and irreversibly changes the lens structure via lens fiber swelling and rupture, vacuole formation, and clinically evident cataract.

Excessive sugar (as with lactose intolerance - a milk sugar) or salt intake can cause osmotic diarrhea as can the use of too much water - soluble molecules, like magnesium or vitamin C, that result in increased fluid retention in the bowel.

A drug called Mannitol is frequently used as well as it has osmotic diuretic properties which helps reduce brain swelling.

It identifies this artistic practice with a new awareness of «in - between» spaces in the era of the Internet — spaces either real nor completely virtual — and a new understanding our own bodies as permeable sensors in constant osmotic exchange as they move through these spaces.

whereas pr and marketing types have historically referred to various assimilation and perception strategies as optics, these emergent cominglings will henceforth be known osmotics.

And it may rather fatuously pat itself on its back for turning the museum into a «social space,» as if art's osmotic, life - changing sociability weren't enough.