Potassium—AND ITS ROLE IN NUTRITION
Ivan Sharman
(Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Medical Research Council)
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Abstract
Potassium, like sodium, is essential for the normal physiological functioning of the body. Both these elements are chemically very similar but in the body sodium is present in the free fluids whereas potassium is mainly in the fluids within the cells, for example, in the muscles and red corpuscles of the blood. Potassium has a complementary action with sodium in the functioning of cells and its concentration within any particular cell is closely controlled.
Citation
Sharman, I. (1978), "Potassium—AND ITS ROLE IN NUTRITION", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 78 No. 4, pp. 9-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058714
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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