BIPN100 F15 Human Physiology 1 (Kristan) Lecture 15. Body Fluids, Tonicity P
BIPN100 F15 Human Physiology 1 (Kristan) Lecture 15. Body fluids, tonicity p. 1 Terms you should understand: intracellular compartment, plasma compartment, interstitial compartment, extracellular compartment, dilution technique, concentration, quantity, volume, Evans blue, plasma volume, interstitial fluid, inulin, total body water, intracellular volume, diffusion, osmosis, colligative property, osmotic pressure, iso-osmotic, hypo-osmotic, hyperosmotic, tonicity, isotonic, hypotonic, hypertonic, active transport, symporter, antiporter, facilitated diffusion. I. Body fluids are distributed in a variety of compartments. A. The three major compartments are: 1. Intracellular compartment = total volume inside all body cells. 2. Plasma compartment = fluid volume inside the circulatory system. 3. Interstitial compartment = volume between the plasma and intracellular compartments. 4. Extracellular compartment = plasma + interstitial fluid B. Slowly-exchanging compartments include bones and dense connective tissues, fluids within the eyes and in the joint capsules; in total, they comprise a small volume. C. Cells exchange materials with the environment almost entirely through the plasma. Fig. 15.1. The major fluid compartments of the body and how water, ions, and metabolites pass among them. D. Under normal conditions, the three compartments are in osmotic equilibrium with one another, but they contain different distributions of solutes. 1. There is a lot of organic anion (mostly proteins) inside cells, essentially none in interstitial fluid, and small quantities in the plasma. 2. Na+ and K+ have inverse concentration profiles across the cell membranes. 3. The total millimolar concentration of solutes is equal in each of the three compartments. 4. Materials that exchange between compartments must cross barriers: a. Cell membranes separate the intracellular and interstitial compartments. b.
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