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What is a Serum Osmolality Test? A serum osmolality test looks for a chemical imbalance in your blood. You may also hear it called an osmolality serum test. Serum is the fluid in your veins and ...

Osmolality is the concentration of all particles in a fluid. For example, thick, sugary syrup has significantly higher osmolality than a cup of water with just a pinch of sugar. The urine osmolality ...

Osmolality measures a beverage’s concentration of solutes (i.e. sugars, salts and carbs) and how quickly the body absorb fluids for optimal hydration, which may help hydration brands validate their ...

Your doctor may order a blood osmolality test to check your body’s salt/water balance. This can help them determine if you have certain medical conditions such as dehydration or sodium deficiency.

Osmolality is a well-established parameter for upstream bioprocessing, formulation, analytical development and QC applications throughout the manufacturing of biological drugs. A recent publication ...

Diabetes insipidus is a rare condition that affects the body’s ability to balance fluid levels properly. The condition can lead to excess urine production and low urine osmolality, which refers to the ...

Hepatic cell metabolism is regulated by substrates, enzymes, hormones and nerves. Another recently described mechanism regulates cellular metabolism via changes of cell volume (the ‘cell volume ...