Body Fluid Compartments & Homeostasis Flashcards
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Main Function of Kidney
Regulate volume and composition of body fluid within narrow limits
How to compartmentalize body fluid
1) Intracellular Fluid
2) Extracellular Fluid
3) Other- lymph, CSF, humors of eyes, serous fluid, GI secretion
60-40-20
- 60% of BW is total Body water
- 40% BW (or 2/3 TBW)= ICF
- 20% BW ( or 1/3 TBW)= ECF
ECF
- 1/4 of ECF= plasma
- 3/4 of ECF= interstitial fluid
Significance of Plasma
-only fluid that can be acted on directly to control volume and composition of interstitial fluid and ECF
Extracellular Fluid Importance
- intermediary btw cells and external environment
- H20 exchange btw ICF and external must go through ECF
Third Spacing
- too much fluid shift from intravascular into interstitial area
- fluid lost from intravascular space
- due to pulmonary edema, trauma, burns
Normal: all fluid contained in intravascular, intracellular, interstitial space
ECF vs ICF (3)
1) Proteins in ICF can’t permeate enveloping membranes to leave cells
2) active Na-K pump in all cells
3) Na+ is primary ECF cation
k+ is primary ICF cation
- Cl- is next in ECF
Electrolytes ( vs. nonelectrolytes, significance)
Nonelectrolytes:
- covalent bond
- no electrical charge
- glucose, lipids, urea
Electrolytes
- dissociates into ions in water
- Mg+, Na+, Cl-, k+
- have ability to cause fluid shift
Na+ Osm
135-147 mEq/L
Cl- Osm
95-105 mEq/L
K+ Osm
3.5-5.0 mEq/L
HCO3- Osm
22-28 mEq/L
Ca2+ Osm
8.4-10 mg/dL
Pi osm
3.0-4.5 mg/dl
anion gap
8-16 mEq/L
Total Serum protein
6 -7.8 g/dl
albumin
3.5-5.5 g/dl
globulin
2.3-3.5 g/dl
Creatinine
0.6-1.2 mg/dl
Glucose
70-110 mg/dl
Urea Nitrogen (BUN)
7-18 mg/dl
Serum Osm
285-295 mIsm/kg H2O
Blood
- content
- average blood volume
- Disturbances in plasma
- ECF= plasma (60%)
- ICF= RBC (40%)
- average blood volume= 7% ( 5 liters)
- ECF volume loss=> increased total plasma protein (concentration
- ECF volume gain => decreased total plasma protein ( dilution)
Hematocrit
- definition
- amount in women and men
- Disturbances in hematocrit
- fraction of blood in RBC
- Men= 0.4
- F= 0.36
- anemia=0.10
- ECF volume loss=> increased hematocrit (concentration)
- ECF volume gain => decreased hematocrit ( dilution)
- ICF volume loss=> decrease hematocrit (shrinkage of RBCs)
- ICF volume gain=> increased hematocrit (swelling of RBCs)
Gibbs- Donnan Effect
- gradient
- permeable to what
1) Protein particles create a oncotic gradient favoring water into cell
2) Negative charge of protein favor movement of charges into cell
- generate both osmotic and electrochemical gradient across membrane
- Permeable to ion
- impermeable to large proteins