potassium level. The liver has been established as the major source of the extra potassium in adrenaline hyperkalemia (5-7). On the other hand, nicotine stimulates adrenaline release from the adrenal glands (11-13), thereby the hyperglycemia is produced as the result of a pharmacological action of nicotine (14-16). As the authors are interested in the relation of the hepatic release of potassiu...

PURPOSE Recent studies have suggested that decreased serum potassium level may contribute to various metabolic disorders in adult patients including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We aimed to study the correlation between serum potassium levels and the histologic severity of NAFLD in children. METHODS Pediatric patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD were included in this study. Demograp...

BACKGROUND Serum potassium levels affect insulin secretion by pancreatic β-cells, and hypokalemia associated with diuretic use has been associated with dysglycemia. We hypothesized that adults with lower serum potassium levels and lower dietary potassium intake are at higher risk for incident diabetes mellitus (DM), independent of diuretic use. METHODS We analyzed data from 12 209 participant...

     For investigation deficit irrigation and nitrogen application effect on nutrients uptake of henna ecotypes, this research was conducted in the form of split-split-plot on the basis of randomized complete block design with four replications in the Research Field of Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran in 2013-2014. The main, sub and sub-sub plot were deficit irrigation (100, 75 and 50% of ...

The human body contains about 3,500mmol of potassium. Only about 2 per cent of this is in the extracellular fluid at any one time and the rest is intracellular. This 98 per cent is held in cells by a set of complex mechanisms and is pumped in and out of them by Na/K-ATPase pumps. Potassium has many biological functions. It is a co-factor for many enzymes and it is required for insulin secretion...

The combination of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) and a thiazide diuretic (hereafter, ARB/diuretic) is expected to improve patient adherence and increase the therapeutic effects because of the lower number of pills that require to be administered. In addition, an ARB/diuretic combination alleviates hypokalemia that frequently develops in patients receiving thiazide diuretics. In this study...

to determine the coefficients of c1 and c in mitscherlich-bray equation, critical level and fertilizer recommendation for potassium (k) as by mitscherlich-bray (mb) equation, an experiment in a randomized complete block design of 5 treatments and 3 replications was carried out in 12 irrigated wheat (triticum aestivum l.) fields in sarpol-e-zohab region during the 2007-08 growing season. the tre...

Hyperkalemia generally is attributable to cell shifts or abnormal renal potassium excretion. Cell shifts account for transient increases in serum potassium levels, whereas sustained hyperkalemia generally is caused by decreased renal potassium excretion. Impaired renal potassium excretion can be caused by a primary decrease in distal sodium delivery, a primary decrease in mineralocorticoid leve...

It is well known that diffusion from the red cells makes estimation of the serum potassium after death useless as a measure of its level during life. It was thought that in the cerebrospinal fluid, whose contact with blood is relatively slight, the level might rise slowly enough for its measurement to be of value. A single estimation was enough to show that this idea was false, and that potassi...

An effort to examine certain aspects of the adaptation in potassium excretion associated with nephron reduction was made in dogs with unilateral remnant kidneys. A constant intake of potassium was maintained by tube feeding and studies were performed before and after removal of the intact control kidney. The removal of the intact kidney created the need for the remaining nephrons of the remnant...