The osmolarity of the plasma increases, which causes dehydration of the red blood cell and results in an increase of mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), leading to increased sickling ...

Body fluids are mainly water and electrolytes, and the three main organs that regulate fluid balance are the brain, the adrenal glands and the kidneys (Tortora and Grabowski, 2002). One-third of the ...