title: [The water content in mammalian tissues and cells].
abstract: Experiments were performed in rats and mice. Tritium oxide was used as a whole body liquid indicator, and the radioisotope chlorine-36 was employed as an extracellular liquid one. The results showed that the water contents varied within small limits, from 0.64 ml/g in ovaries to 0.79 ml/g in testes in the nine organs and tissues under study, the values varying from only 0.68 to 0.74 ml/g in seven of them. The body water content by body mass unit was less (0.62 ml/g) since the bone and adipose tissues contained little water. The tissues under study contained 0.45 to 0.65 ml of water per g of the cellular substance. The values obtained for both species were similar. The characteristics of the whole body water-saline balance for the animals corresponded to those for dogs and humans.
authors: M I
authors: MI
authors: Balonov
authors: T V
authors: TV
authors: Zhesko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001834:Body Water / Q000032:analysis*; D002713:Chlorine; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals / Q000502:physiology*; D008433:Mathematics; D051379:Mice; D011868:Radioisotopes; D051381:Rats; D012016:Reference Values; D012588:Scintillation Counting / Q000379:methods; D014316:Tritium; D014868:Water Deprivation / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes; D014316:Tritium; D002713:Chlorine
vernacular_title: Soderzhanie vody v tkaniakh i kletkakh tkaneĭ mlekopitaiushchikh.