The human kidney displays a tubular immaturity at birth, with sodium waste, responsible for a negative sodium balance, and an impaired ability to reabsorb water (1), which is aggravated under ...

One of the functions of your adrenal glands is to produce a hormone called aldosterone that plays an active role in your blood pressure. It does this by maintaining the balance of sodium, potassium, ...

Constancy of the milieu intérieur, defined by Claude Bernard in the late 1800s, is essential for terrestrial life. Sodium balance in humans is part and parcel of that environment and is maintained in ...