This study explored whether the increased extracellular relative to intracellular fluid (ECF/ICF) ratio in obesity might reflect osmotic effects of elevated plasma solute concentrations. The present ...

Geriatrics and Aging. 2007;10(9):590-596. Three forms of dehydration can be distinguished on the basis of the plasma tonicity: hypertonic, isotonic, and hypotonic dehydration. Many studies on ...

A fundamental challenge for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene therapy is ensuring sufficient transduction of airway epithelial cells to achieve therapeutic correction. Vehicles such as lysophosphatidylcholine ...