This effect can be countered by increasing the pressure of the hypertonic solution, with respect to the hypotonic.

A hypertonic solution is used in osmotherapy to treat cerebral hemorrhage.

This is a very hypertonic solution yet it has worked well as a general tissue fixation condition for many years in pathology labs.

This occurs in a hypertonic solution.

In biology, a hypertonic solution is one with a higher concentration of solutes on the outside of the cell.

Fatty foods and hypertonic solutions empty slowly.

Hypertonic solutions give rise to cell shrinkage.

When a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution water actually flows out of the cell into the surrounding solution.

Hypertonic solutions may be more useful at drawing moisture from the mucus membrane and relieving nasal congestion.

The usual cell biology situation is: hypotonic solution outside the cell, and hypertonic solution inside.

Isotonic solutions have the same salt concentration as the human body whereas hypertonic solutions have a higher salt content.

If a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, the plant cell loses water and hence turgor pressure, making the plant cell flaccid.

This can be assisted by electroporation; by temporarily damaging muscle fibres with myotoxins such as bupivacaine; or by using hypertonic solutions of saline or sucrose.

When a cell is immersed into a hypertonic solution, the tendency is for water to flow out of the cell in order to balance the concentration of the solutes.

Premature labor and delivery can be induced with prostaglandin; this can be coupled with injecting the amniotic fluid with hypertonic solutions containing saline or urea.

When plant cells are in a hypertonic solution, the flexible cell membrane pulls away from the rigid cell wall, but remains joined to the cell wall at points called plasmodesmata.

If there is an intact blood-brain barrier, osmotherapy may be carried out by administering IV mannitol to create a hypertonic solution within the blood to draw water out of the neurons.

When a plant cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, the water in the cells moves to an area higher in solute concentration and the cell shrinks, and in doing so, becomes flaccid.

Usually the osmotic gradient is used while comparing solutions that have a semipermeable membrane between them allowing water to diffuse between the two solutions, toward the hypertonic solution (the solution with the higher concentration).

The descriptor can apply to objects of different types, including cells, where one mechanism of crenation is the contraction of a cell after exposure to a hypertonic solution, due to the loss of water through osmosis.

There was no significant increase in concentration of either peptide after intracolonic infusion of any of these test substances, either given as isotonic or hypertonic solutions, except for a small effect of glucose on enteroglucagon concentrations.

We found that the total intracellular water signal (see Figure 6) shrinks in response to osmotically driven efflux when the tissue is exposed to hypertonic solutions (with salt or sucrose in the perfusate spectra; data not shown).

If a hypertonic solution is introduced into the gut lumen, then osmosis dictates that water will tend to be drawn into the lumen from the surrounding gut wall (and hence from the blood perfusing the tissues of the gut).

Gastrografin is a hypertonic solution, and therefore it should be avoided in imaging studies of the upper gastrointestinal tract in patients who are at risk of aspiration, as it will cause prompt pulmonary edema if accidentally introduced into the tracheobronchial tree.

Lenz et al used intragastric titration to measure acid output and hypertonic solutions of glucose saline as controls and found that 5% and 10% ethanl significantly increased three hour acid secretion whereas 20% ethanol had a mild but insignificant stimulatory effect.