MCQ
If kept in 0.8% NaCl, RBCs will:
  • A
    Shrink
  • B
    Remain same
  • C
    Burst
  • D
    None of the above

Answer

  1.  Remain same

Explanation:

The solution of salt or salts that is essentially isotonic with tissue fluids or blood, is physiological saline. 

0.8% salt solution is physiological saline and is thus, isotonic.

In isotonic solutions, the cells remain the same as the osmotic pressure outside the RBC is same as the pressure inside the cells. 

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