Blood Pressure, Ventilation and Lipid Imbalance during Hemodialysis: Effect of Dialysate Composition

Abstract

Regular hemodialysis with either acetate or bicarbonate dialysate can be associated with the development of hypotension and hypoxemia. Hypotension, which is more commonly observed during acetate dialysis, is usually the result of unfavorable alterations in the cardiac output, the peripheral vascular resistance, or both. Complement-mediated leukocyte embolization and hypoventilation represent the major causes of hypoxemia. No consistent long-term effects on lipid balance have been observed with either dialysate.

Metals and linear alkylbenzene sulphonate as inhibitors of the algae Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata acid phosphatase activity

“…Thus, when we compare the inhibition at the highest tested concentration in our work (7 days exposure), a similar degree of effect was attained with 0.44 lM Hg 2? in water on the enzyme extracted from gills (Verma et al 1985) and with 0.014 lM (Misra et al 1991) or 0.04 mM (Mohan and Verma 1981) LAS for the gill and intestinal acid phosphatase, respectively. This can be explained by the presence of the cell wall in algae which is absent in fish cells.…”