Is it possible to create an osmotic disequilibrium between the extracellular and intracellular compartments? Explain.

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INTRACELLUAR AND EXTRACELLULAR COMARTMENTS FLUIDS ARE NORMALLY IN OSMOTIC EQUILIBRIUM.

1 compartments of the body are in chemical disequilibrium ,body stays in osmotic equilibrium due to water.It is not possible to create an osmotic disequilibrium between the extracellular and intracellular compartments, because whenever there is disequilibrium between these two compartments the water moves to restore a new osmotic equilibrium..

2.The composition of Intracellular fulid (ICF) nd extracellular fluid (ECF) is different but the total solute concentration is normally same of these two fuids.

3.The ICF AND ECF depends primarily on the volume of water present in these compartments and also depend on the amount of solute present and the osmolality.

4.The main osmotically active solute in cell ( ICF) is pottasium therefore loss in potassium will led the cell to shrink.,and osmotically active solute in ECF is sodium ,so loss of sodium from body will cause the ECF volume to swell or shrink respectively.

5 Body fluids are aqueous solutions with differenent concentration of material called solute,an appropriate balance must be maintained to ensure cellular functions ,if the cytosol becomes to much concentrated due to water loss cell functions detoriate,if the cytosol becomes too dilute due to more water intake ,cell membrane will be damaged.

6.ICF comprises 33% of body weight and ECF comprises 27% of body weight.

Sydney Mullin answered 1 year ago

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