What's the difference between electrolyte and sodium?

Electrolyte


Definition:

  • (n.) A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (2) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
  • (3) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (4) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).
  • (5) The contents of magnesium, potassium and zinc plasma did not correlate with the corresponding concentrations in skeletal muscle or circulating blood cells, as investigated in healthy controls, diabetics and in all subjects together, implying that the plasma concentrations are not useful in the assessment of electrolyte status.
  • (6) Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in a dose dependent fashion.
  • (7) Opiate agonists and endogenous opioid peptides inhibit electrolyte secretion both in vitro and in vivo.
  • (8) Chronic exposure of epithelial cells to the lysate mediator preparation, followed by washing, had no effect on their basal electrical or electrolyte-transporting properties.
  • (9) The channels studied here were more selective for monovalent cations than anions, but also showed some permeability to anions and larger electrolytes, suggesting a large functional pore diameter.
  • (10) An oral glucose electrolyte solution is often used in place of intravenous therapy in diarrheal diseases caused by Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic E. coli, and undiagnosed watery diarrheal diseases.
  • (11) Disturbances in muscle electrolytes play an important role in the development of muscular fatigue.
  • (12) Traditional dietary preparations for diarrhea such as carrot soup and products based on rice have essentially an absorbent power and do not diminish intestinal loss of water and electrolytes.
  • (13) The results of electrolytic labelling of albumin, the kinetic curve on the antigen-antibody reaction and the cross reactivity of the anti-albumin antiserum with alpha 1 antitrypsin are reported.
  • (14) Diuretics may, however, be hazardous because of their effects on electrolytes-notably potassium-thereby increasing the risk of arrhythmias.
  • (15) After the initiation of parenteral therapy and the adequate replacement of fluids and electrolytes, slow introduction of oral or enteric feeding is reasonable.
  • (16) YM-09730-5 produced significant diuresis and increased urinary excretion of electrolytes throughout the experiment.
  • (17) Our failure to understand kidney function in the neonate does not justify shifting the blame for unwanted disturbances in fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic acidosis, and azotemia to a small kidney.
  • (18) No abnormalities in serum electrolytes, acid-base balance or renal function were observed during follow-up periods of 8-16 months.
  • (19) There was no evidence of either myocardial infarction, abnormal electrolyte state, or digitalis intoxication.
  • (20) Colonic cleansing was better with polyethylene glycol electrolyte lavage (90 percent optimal cleansing vs. 75 percent).

Sodium


Definition:

  • (n.) A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
  • (3) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (4) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (5) No statistically significant difference was found between sodium hyaluronate and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC).
  • (6) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
  • (7) These were an isotonic solution of sodium chloride (900 micrograms NaCl in 0.1 ml), histamine (100 mu g in 0.1 mu l), phytohaemagglutinin (200 mu g in 0.1 ml), and a staphylococcus lysate (STAVA).
  • (8) Sodium intake affects K excretion, increases in intake resulting in a higher rate of K excretion.
  • (9) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
  • (10) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
  • (11) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
  • (12) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
  • (13) The sodium level of the ascitic fluid determined in 5 cases was higher than that of serum.
  • (14) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
  • (15) After local injection of sodium iodoacetate osteoarthritic reactions will progress within 2-4 months.
  • (16) The free nucleoside IV was obtained by removal of blocking groups by sodium methoxide catalyzed deacylation, deionization under reducing atmosphere, and chromatography on neutral alumina.
  • (17) L-Leucine-(14)C and sodium pyruvate-3-(14)C were employed to measure globin and heme synthesis, respectively.
  • (18) Defects of several membrane proteins were found with sodium dodecyl sulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
  • (19) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
  • (20) Its metabolism was studied in the hamster in comparison with sodium 3 alpha, 7 alpha-dihydroxy-24-nor-5 beta-cholane-23-sulfonate and sodium taurochenodeoxycholate.