FIVE years ago the studies on tissue composition were summarized, and an attempt was made to relate changes in tissue composition to clinical disturbances in the balance of water and electrolyte. 1 It ...

IN normal man osmolality, or concentration of osmotically active solutes in body fluids or total body water, is remarkably constant despite large variations in water and solute intake and excretion.

In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers at Jilin University now report a way to measure the electrical conductivity of such fluids using volumes as small as 50 nanoliters.

Hidden deep within your body, a bizarre and complex network of over 50 distinct biological fluids is constantly working to keep you alive, and some of them are incredibly strange. Our latest human ...

Indiana University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Just as a fish never stops to think about the water in which it spends its entire life, so do many human beings rarely pause to ...