Use Fick’s Law of Diffusion to answer the following questions QUALITATIVELY (using words (increase, decrease, stay the same) and QUANTITATIVELY (provide a number).
Acute infection of an infant with rotavirus results in a case of severe hyperkalemic dehydration that increases the potassium concentration gradient three-fold across cell membranes. How would this affect flux of potassium ions directly through the membrane of cells in the ascending limb of the loop of Henle? Consider this effect alone and assume all other parameters are unaffected.