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Correlations between the cerebrospinal fluid surface tension value and 1. Concentration of total proteins 2. Number
1Clinic of Occupational Diseases, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. ant.kratochvil@centrum.cz
General Physiology and Biophysics
|August 10, 2002
Abstract:
The contribution gives a survey about the problematics of surface tension in biomedical sciences. The paper presents results of a study devoted to the cerebrospinal fluid. The distribution of the surface tension values of this liquid in healthy individuals is presented (n = 33), and further, statistically significant correlations between the cerebrospinal fluid surface tension value and 1. concentration of total proteins expressed by Spearman's coefficient p(s) = (-0.995) and 2. number of cell elements expressed through Spearman's coefficient p(s) = (-0.965) in cerebrospinal fluid are described.