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The cholera toxin causes intestinal cells to pump out their chloride ions. Soon, there is almost no chloride in the cell, but still a lot of water. Predict what happens next, describe how it happens, and explain the effect it has on the cells.

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Answer:

intestine draws up to 6 literes of water a day. causing diarreah.

Explanation:

vast amounts of water and salt are lost. but because of that more water is produced rapidly. i cant say for certain what it does to the cells but you should research a bit of that to understand it better yourself.

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annyksl

After losing the chloride, the cell loses water until it wilts and completely loses its functions.

We can arrive at this answer as follows:

  • By losing all chloride salts, the cell is out of balance with the extracellular environment.
  • To resolve this imbalance, the cell will start to lose water, in an attempt to keep the same amount of salts inside and outside the cell.
  • However, as the cell is without chloride salts, all the water will come out of the cell, causing it to completely shrivel up completely and lose all functionality.

With the loss of water from the cells, the body becomes dehydrated, with metabolism failures and other problems related to dehydration.

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