Zoology 10th Edition by Stephen Miller,John Harley

Exercise 2

The different processes by which material moves into and out of the cell through the plasma membrane include simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, osmosis, filtration, active transport, bulk transport, endocytosis, (pinocytosis, phagocytosis, and receptor-mediated endocytosis) and exocytosis. Water passes through the plasma membrane and through aquaporins in response to solute concentration differences inside and outside the cell. This transport process is called osmosis.
If you require that drugs be given to you by an intravenous (IV) process, what should the concentration of solutes in the IV solution be relative to your red blood cells?