Water and solute transport across the peritoneal membrane

Water transport across the peritoneal membrane.

Peritoneal dialysis involves diffusive and convective transports and osmosis through the highly vascularized peritoneal membrane. The capillary endothelium offers the rate-limiting hindrance for solute and water transport. It can be functionally described in terms of a three-pore model including transcellular, ultrasmall pores responsible for free-water transport during crystalloid osmosis. Sev...

Measuring transport of water across the peritoneal membrane.

INTRODUCTION Mechanisms of water flow across the peritoneal membrane include diffusion, convection, and reabsorption. OBJECTIVES To understand these processes more clearly we have developed a method to measure transport of water across the peritoneal membrane. METHODS An artificial gradient of deuterated water (HDO) between blood and dialysate compartments was created in five subjects who t...

Peritoneal glucose exposure and changes in membrane solute transport with time on peritoneal dialysis.

Peritoneal solute transport increases with time on treatment in a proportion of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients, contributing to ultrafiltration failure. Continuous exposure of the peritoneum to hypertonic glucose solutions results in morphologic damage that may have a causative role in changes in peritoneal function. The purpose of this analysis was to establish whether increased exposure to...

Active Solute Transport across Frog

Composite Transport Model and Water and Solute Transport across Plant Roots: An Update

The present review examines recent experimental findings in root transport phenomena in terms of the composite transport model (CTM). It has been a well-accepted conceptual model to explain the complex water and solute flows across the root that has been related to the composite anatomical structure. There are three parallel pathways involved in the transport of water and solutes in roots - apo...