sodium-potassium pump

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The enzyme-based mechanism that maintains correct cellular concentrations of sodium and potassium ions by removing excess ions from inside a cell and replacing them with ions from outside the cell.

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Words nearby sodium-potassium pump

sodium pentothal, sodium perborate, sodium peroxide, sodium phosphate, sodium polysulfide, sodium-potassium pump, sodium propionate, sodium pump, sodium pyroborate, sodium salicylate, sodium silicate

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Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.
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It takes around 48 hours for a patient poisoned with potassium to die, which gave Poggiali plenty of distance from the deaths.
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For all intents and purposes, sodium thiopental is now unavailable in the United States.
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Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.
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By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Indol is absorbed and oxidized into indoxyl, which combines with potassium and sulphuric acid and is thus excreted.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
This fluid is then heated, adding crystals of sodium acetate until it becomes perfectly clear.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

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