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NFM 225 Final
Water & Alcohol
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Undergraduate 2
12/08/2009

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What are the functions of water in the body?
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Identify the major characteristics of water and how they relate to functions in the body.
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How are water and minerals related to the body's inter and extra-cellular fluid balance?
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Where do most of the body's water losses occur?
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What is ADH?
Function of it?
How is it signaled?
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What are the sources of water in/for the body?
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How is water lost from the body?
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Where is most of the ingested alcohol metabolized?
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What are the two pathways of metabolism designed to detoxify alcohol and its metabolites?
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Why may the liver become diseased in an individual with alcoholism?
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What are the 3 stages of Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD)?
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Which vitamins and minerals may be deficient in an individual with alcoholism? What are the symptoms?
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What is a toxic metabolite of alcohol?
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What organs and body sytems (besides the liver) may be damaged with longterm heavy alcohol use? Why does the damage occur?
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