Osmotic pressure is the force that pulls water across a membrane, driven by differences in solute concentration. The osmotic ...

THE fact that the colloid osmotic pressures exerted by the body fluids of marine animals arrange themselves in the order of their phylogenetic development 1, suggested that there exists a definite ...

As reported some months ago 1, measurements of the colloid osmotic pressure of the body fluids of marine animals gave results which arranged themselves in the order of phylogenetic development. This ...

To answer your question more explicitly, there is no clear evidence on which to base the choice of intravenous fluid resuscitation agent in patients with septic shock. Colloids have physiologic ...

Scientific misconduct in cancer clinical trials. Quality-of-life benefit in chemotherapy patients treated with epoetin alfa is independent of disease response or tumor type: results from a prospective ...

Recent studies clearly demonstrate the respiratory importance of the hemocyanins in each of the three animal phyla in which they occur. Despite their generally low oxygen affinity, hemocyanins can be ...