To the issue of fluctuations of blood salts

Abstract

The classical studies of Loeb and his school put forward a huge material for studying the influence of salts on all processes related to the activity of muscles, nerves and glands. Loeb's own experiments on marine animals led him to the conclusion that the substances in the so-called nutrient solutions should be divided into substances that are actually nutritive, which go to build the cell, and substances that play a protective role. Among the latter Loeb includes chloride salts of Na, K, Ca and Mg, absence of which in the environment containing living matter entails physical changes in protoplasm of the latter.

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