Water and Our Metabolism

Water--Our Most Precious Resource.

Feeding Our Immune System: Impact on Metabolism

Endogenous intestinal microflora and environmental factors, such as diet, play a central role in immune homeostasis and reactivity. In addition, microflora and diet both influence body weight and insulin-resistance, notably through an action on adipose cells. Moreover, it is known since a long time that any disturbance in metabolism, like obesity, is associated with immune alteration, for examp...

Water and Electrolyte Metabolism II

I have followed the lysosome field since it was proposed as a concept by deDuve and his co-workers in 1955 and find this collection of papers by workers in that field an interesting addition that has many sparkling con-addition, of course, to deDuve, to name a few) but it also has several several shortcomings. For the uninitiated (and there are surprisingly many for whom "lysosome" is a new wor...

What has happened . to our water ?

This Study Guide is intended as an orientation to the four parts of the film WATER AND THE DREAM OF THE ENGINEERS. It presents the perspective of the film and offers general background material for teachers unfamiliar with .the subject. For further reading, a brief bibliography is provzded. At the end of the notes for each section is a set of study questions teachers might use with their studen...

Disorders of Water Metabolism

Disorders of water balance and serum Na ( S Na ) are very common in hospitalized patients [ 1 ] . In health, water balance and plasma osmolality, and thereby S Na , are tightly regulated by the kidney, which makes minute-by-minute adjustments to the composition of urine in order to maintain a near-constant plasma osmolality. The development of hyponatremia or hypernatremia may therefore re fl e...