HUBS1406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stratified Squamous Epithelium, Golgi Apparatus, Red Blood Cell

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Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins are classified as: Provide roughly twice the energy as carbohydrates, help to maintain body temperature, form essential structural components of cells. The numbers listed below represent the number of electrons in the first, second, and third energy levels, respectively. Patients who have suffered strokes often suffer more brain damage after the stroke because of oedema (swelling) of the brain cells. To try to reduce this oedema, a carbohydrate known as mannitol is given intravenously. Mannitol is a large sugar which cannot get out of the blood vessels. A patient is suffering from a liver condition, resulting in a reduced production of the protein albumin. Albumin is usually present at significant concentration in the blood. Water will move out of the blood vessels since the solution outside the blood vessels will be hypertonic to the solution inside. The smallest living unit within the human body is:

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