Water & 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...

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...

IISG Projects - Water for Our Future

For more than 100 years, the wetland sediments at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (IDNL) and adjacent Indiana Dunes State Park have received atmospheric input of trace metals from industrial sources located upwind and to the west. The objective of this study was to document the extent and magnitude of this trace metal pollution both aerially and with depth within the IDNL, and to identify ...