What's the difference between kalium and potassium?
Kalium
Definition:
(n.) Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.
Example Sentences:
(1) This correlates with the statistically significant increase of the serum levels of the total alkaline phosphatase and its bone isoenzyme by keeping a normal kalium phosphorous balance as well as with the x-ray data for retaining the bone changes liked with the osteoporosis.
(2) The content of blood kalium was significantly increased with the prolonging shocked time (n = 12) or acupuncturing "Renzhong" (n = 14), P < 0.05.
(3) In a controlled randomized double-blind trial carried out by 47 physicians in private practice with totally 152 patients with sinusitis the therapeutic success of the following homeopathic drug preparations was investigated: Group A: combination of luffa operculata D4, kalium bicromicum D4 and cinnabaris D3.
(4) In 54 patients postoperatively following restoration of bile passage in the bowel a progressive decrease in kalium concentration and an increase of sodium in erythrocytes were associated with a simultaneous enhancement of coagulation properties, and vice versa an increased kalium and decreased sodium content in erythrocytes was associated with a hypocaugulation tendency.
(5) The content of blood kalium was increased at maintainually shock for one hour (n = 26).
(6) The blood pressure (carotid artery), 24 hours urinary sodium and kalium excretion, plasma levels of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ir-ANP) and the rise in plasma ir-ANP concentrations after an acute volume expansion by homologous whole blood (10%) were evaluated after 1 week on the different diets.
(7) There was a tendency to normalization of hypo- and hypertension, of the blood calcium and kalium, and especially, there was a significant increase of IgG and C'4 during the treatment with decrease of the IgM.
(8) In treatment of patients subjected to extensive enterectomy, it is recommended to use the therapeutic complex contributing not only to rehabilitation of the digestive function but also to normalization of the renal activity and blood water-electrolyte content, special attention being attached to a correction of kalium metabolism.
(9) Author recommends for staining of the JGC-granula after oxydation with periodic acid a solution of phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin ripened by kalium iodate, and for counterstain an orange G solution.
(10) These are manifested in the loss of intracellular elements: kalium, nitrogen and retention of extracellular elements: sodium and water.
(11) In the present work, the changes of pH and the kalium content of blood and the effects of acupuncturing "Renzhong" on these changes were observed in rats with hemorrhagic shock.
(12) Group B: combination of kalium bicromicum D4 and cinnabaris D3.
(13) The aim of the study was to assess the results of the prophylaxis with Kalium iodine after the radiation and the incidence of the goiter in the population.
(14) The effects of the positive-inotropic drug Canrenoat-Kalium (CRK) on the extent and severity of myocardial ischemic injury and on hemodynamic parameters were studied in 17 dogs following coronary occlusion.
(15) Increase of kalium concentration in correspondence to the degree of haemolysis was discovered in the erythrocyte suspension.
(16) The aim of the study was to determine whether kalium iodine in one dose during radioactive contamination in Poland limited the radioactive dose in the thyroid gland and if significant disadvantageous side-effects in the intrathyroid and extrathyroid occurred.
(17) 2 series of patients with angiographically proven coronary artery disease were studied under the influence of an infusion of a beta-receptor stimulating drug (heptaminole) and of kalium-magnesium-aspartate (KMA) in high (series: I: 1000 mg of heptaminole in 25 min) and low doses (series II: 200 mg of heptaminole in 25 min) of beta-receptor stimulation.
(18) Type IV RTA originates in a defect in the distal nephron responsible for hydrogen and kalium ion secretion.
(19) Kalium and Magnesium ions are important cations in human body, both of them take part in many processes of metabolism in coordination.
(20) Following a critical review of published reports on the use of magnesium during the third quarter of pregnancy, the paper examines the value of blood magnesium tests during pregnancy as well as the validity of administrating kalium aspartate and magnesium aspartate to treat the risk of premature birth.
Potassium
Definition:
(n.) An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(3) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(4) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
(5) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
(6) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(7) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(8) Assuming 1 kg LBM to contain 52.1 mmol potassium, the mean LBM was 3028 g in the I-NSM and 2739 in the I-SM; mean fat mass was similar in both groups.
(9) 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.
(10) Thallium-201, a radiopharmaceutical that possesses many of the characteristics of potassium analogues, at present is receiving the greatest attention as a regional blood flow indicator.
(11) No changes were seen in the levels of serum creatinine and potassium, but episodes of hyperkalemia were more frequent in patients on Epo.
(12) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(13) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(14) No difference in urinary sodium or potassium excretion was observed between SHR and WKY, but basal calcium and phosphate excretion were reduced in SHR (P less than 0.05).
(15) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
(16) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(17) A calcium dependent potassium conductance was probably involved in the slow phase, because it was sensitive to inorganic calcium blockers.
(18) The renal response to aldosterone, measured by urinary sodium and potassium excretion, was determined in adrenalectomized rats that had been previously fed either a high potassium diet or a control diet.
(20) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.