Managing chronic disease often involves addressing one problem at a time: pain is managed, inflammation is suppressed, organ ...

ATTENTION has been called to the fact that patients who have lost most of their normal capacity to eliminate water, potassium and phosphate as a consequence of severe renal damage may nonetheless ...

In fact, homeostatic functions are so fundamental for the sustenance of life that many fatal diseases can be described as failures of homeostasis, such as diabetes. Mark Solms argues in his important ...

Homeostasis is the critical biological process through which the constant regulation of biochemical signals and functions is achieved at equilibrium. The most important functions in humans for ...

THE neuroendocrine-renal homeostatic mechanisms keep the water and electrolyte content of the body within physiologic limits by adjusting the urinary output of water and solutes in accordance with ...