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Hello, in this video we're going to talk about body fluid compartments and also touch on electrolytes.
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The body can be divided into solids and water.
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Solids make up about 40 to 50%, depending if you're male or female.
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Water accounts for about 60% of the total body weight for an adult male and 50% of that for an adult female.
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This difference between the sexes reflects the proportionality of larger mass of adipose tissue in adult females
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and the greater average muscle tissues in adult males.
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Solids are things such as protein, lipids, carbs and minerals.
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In this example, the total volume of water is that of an average adult male and is about 40 liters.
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The total body water is distributed into two fluid compartments,
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the extracellular fluid, ECF, and the intracellular fluid, ICF.
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ECF is about one-third of total body fluid, which means about 15 liters, let's just say.
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The ICF is two-thirds of total body fluid, which is about 25 liters.
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ECF can be further divided into the plasma, which is fluid in the circulation.
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Fluid in the circulation makes up about 20% of the extracellular fluid.
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The remaining 80% is found in the interstitium, which is fluid found between the cells.
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The intracellular fluid, ICF, is basically fluid that's inside the cell, and as mentioned, is where most of the total body fluid is found.
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Inside the cell means basically where the nucleus is, and again the nucleus holds the cell's DNA.
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We mainly get fluid from drinking water and eating food.
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And so the main fluid input is basically from the gastrointestinal tract.
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We need roughly 2500 mls per day, which is required to balance your average water loss.
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And of course, water enters firstly the extracellular fluid, first from the gastrointestinal tract.
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Water can then move between the different fluid compartments in the body like so.
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extracellular fluid contains two-thirds of the total body water, and extracellular fluid contains the rest, only one-third.
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Really important to understand that water moves passively between fluid compartments, either via channels or between cells.
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No need for active transport, no need to spend energy to move water between fluid compartments.
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Movement of water occurs passively in response to osmotic gradients.
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To demonstrate this concept, imagine a jaw like this represents your body.
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A semi-permeable membrane separates the jaw into two compartments.
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You have more solutes on the right compartment, and through osmotic granite principle, fluid will shift to the area with more solutes, and this is osmosis.
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We talked about fluid input through the gastrointestinal tract.
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Fluid output occurs through other routes, the kidneys, the gastrointestinal tract, the lungs and skin.
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You lose about 2500mL of water each day.
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Sometimes fluid accumulates in the interstitium,
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for example due to disruption in solute concentration across the plasma and the interstitial space.
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The body has ways to fix this, and this is through the lymphatics.
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Fluid may also travel from the interstitium,
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from the interstitial space, to the plasma through the lymphatic vessels that drain into the venous circulation.
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Let's now talk about electrolytes.
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Now we have many electrolytes that are distributed throughout the body's compartments.
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In the extracellular fluid we can find sodium,
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potassium, calcium and chloride, which can move between the plasma and the interstitium via semi-permeable membranes.
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The concentration of electrolytes in the plasma and the interstitium is about the same.
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For example, sodium in blood is about 145 millimoles per liter, potassium is 4, calcium is 2.5,
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and chloride is 115 on average.
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Electrolytes can't just move through the lipid membrane between the extracellular fluid and the intracellular fluid.
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They often rely on transport channels.
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For example, sodium and potassium move via sodium-potassium pumps,
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where 3 sodium is transported out of the cell in exchange for 2 potassium inside the cell.
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This type of channel requires ATP.
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This sort of mechanism allows the different gradient of ions across the body compartments.
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Because inside your cell you have 12 millimoles per liter of sodium and potassium you have 155 millimoles per liter.
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Intracellular calcium is less than 0.5 and chloride is 4.
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You can see straight away that the main cation in the extracellular fluid is sodium.
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The main cation in the intracellular fluid is potassium.
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The main anion in the extracellular fluid is chloride.
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And the main anion in the intracellular fluid are the negatively charged proteins.
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But the main electrolyte is phosphorus.
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proteins are also found in the plasma
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but not in the interstitium not in the interstitial fluid the main protein found in plasma is albumin
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and albumin helps maintain the osmotic gradient
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helps keep water in the blood vessels phosphorus in the phosphate
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form is the main anion in the intracellular fluid other important negative negatively charged ions are bicarbonate
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which is very important acid-base balance.
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These electrolyte levels are very important to know and understand because if,
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for example, you have high concentrations of calcium or potassium in plasma or in the extracellular fluid,
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cardiac arrhythmias can develop and death can result.
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All the homeostatic mechanisms that monitor and adjust the composition of body fluids responds to changes in the extracellular fluid,
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not the intracellular fluid.
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In summary, sodium is the main extracellular fluid cation,
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chloride is the main extracellular fluid anion, potassium is the main intracellular fluid cation,
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phosphate or phosphorus is the main intracellular fluid anion, and bicarbonate is important in acid-base balance.
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Thank you.

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ParolaPronunciaSignificato
extracellular aggettivoextracellulare
intracellular aggettivointracellulare
potassium sostantivo/pəˈtæsiəm/potassio
sodium sostantivo/ˈsəʊ.di.əm/sodio
plasma sostantivo/ˈplæzmə/plasma
electrolyte sostantivo/ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/elettrolito, elettrolita
anion sostantivo/ˈænˌaɪ.ən/anione
chloride sostantivo/ˈklɔɹˌaɪd/cloruro
cation sostantivo/ˈkætˌaɪ.ən/catione
gastrointestinal aggettivo/ˌɡæstɹoʊɪnˈtɛstɪnəl/gastrointestinale
tract sostantivo/tɹækt/apparato
calcium sostantivo/ˈkælsi.əm/calcio
interstitial aggettivo/ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/interstiziale
osmotic aggettivo/ɑzˈmɑtɪk/osmotico
phosphorus sostantivo/ˈfɑs.fɚ.əs/fosforo

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Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo facan be divided · is distributed · is found
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosafluid, which means · fluid, which is · plasma, which is

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 3 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, we're, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: interstitium /ˌɪntɚˈstɪʃi.əm/, interstitial /ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/, circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, proportionality /pɹəpɔɹʃəˈnæləti/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, interstitium /ˌɪntɚˈstɪʃi.əm/, gastrointestinal /ˌɡæstɹoʊɪnˈtɛstɪnəl/, interstitial /ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/, circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: compartment /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, chloride /ˈklɔɹˌaɪd/, tract /tɹækt/, gradient /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: potassium /pəˈtæsiəm/, plasma /ˈplæzmə/, anion /ˈænˌaɪ.ən/, cation /ˈkætˌaɪ.ən/, gastrointestinal /ˌɡæstɹoʊɪnˈtɛstɪnəl/

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