It also helps keep the body's acid-base balance.
With sodium, potassium is involved in maintaining normal water balance, osmotic equilibrium, and acid-base balance.
This leads to drowsiness (narcosis), deranged acid-base balance due to respiratory acidosis, and death.
Cannon based this on insights into the ways by which steady states such as glucose concentrations, body temperature and acid-base balance were regulated.
The body's acid-base balance is tightly regulated.
Lactic acid is an irritant which could potentially destroy cells since it is an acid and disrupts the normal acid-base balance in the brain.
Dietary deficiency, low circulating oestrogens, hypercortisolism, laxative misuse, and disturbed acid-base balance are thought to be responsible.
The Stewart approach models the complex chemical equilibrium system known as acid-base balance.
The body's acid-base balance is normally tightly regulated, keeping the arterial blood pH between 7.38 and 7.42.
This leads to a stable situation, because the kidneys increase body chemicals, such as bicarbonate, that help restore the body's acid-base balance.