Many of us gained our first appreciation for chemistry upon witnessing a high school teacher drop a chunk of sodium into a beakerful of water. You may think you know the explanation behind the ...

Most people are familiar with sodium chloride (commonly known as salt) as a kitchen ingredient, but it also has important medical uses. Sodium chloride (NaCl), also known as salt, is an essential ...

TRADITION is hard to break. Doubtless since the time of Adam, dropsy has been traditionally treated by the limitation of fluid intake, a natural result of the observation of the accumulation of water ...

Note: This video is designed to help the teacher better understand the lesson and is NOT intended to be shown to students. It includes observations and conclusions that students are meant to make on ...

The Institute of Medicine, through its Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), as part of the continuing activity to develop Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for nutrients, undertook an 18-month study to ...

ATTENTION has been called to the fact that patients who have lost most of their normal capacity to eliminate water, potassium and phosphate as a consequence of severe renal damage may nonetheless ...

Figure 1: A putative chloride site in GAT-1. Figure 2: Net flux by wild-type and chloride-independent mutant transporters: theory and experiment. Figure 4: Anion selectivity of GAT-1 S331 mutants and ...