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What type of immunity is provided when a person receives laboratory-produced antibodies?

MATCHING – Blood and Blood Vessels Directions – Choose the answer that best matches the description or term. You may use each answer once, more than once, or not at all. EACH QUESTION HAS ONLY ONE CORRECT ANSWER. (5 pts)

The heart is an example of an organ containing endocrine tissue.

During moderate exercise, venous return increases significantly. How does this increase in venous return affect preload and ultimately support cardiac output?

Vasodepressor syncope resulting in syncope occurs due to sudden emotional stress.

Which of the following correctly describes how peptide hormones function?

DIRECTIONS FOR ANSWERING SHORT ANSWER: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Partial credit will be given. You should answer one question from each block for a total of 2 short answer questions. You are to answer all parts of the one question you choose. BLOCK 1: CHOOSE EITHER QUESTION 1 OR QUESTION 2 OR QUESTION 3 TO ANSWER AND ANSWER ALL PARTS FOR FULL CREDIT (DO NOT ANSWER ALL 3, JUST 1 FROM THIS BLOCK). Make sure you tell me clearly which block and question you are answering. Use complete sentences, partial credit will be given. (10 pts) Question 1: You have been working on a big project at work and your boss has been very overbearing throughout the processes. You notice your blood pressure has progressively been getting higher throughout the process. Physiological, explain how the baroreceptor reflex responds in this situation in the short term, and how the endocrine system will establish a long-term solution. Include in your answer: A. Describe the baroreceptors reflex that is activated in this situation. (2 pts) B. What the nervous system will do to correct the problem in the short term. (4 pts) C. What the endocrine system will do to correct the problem in the long term. (4 pts) Question 2: Speculate what would happen to mean arterial pressure (MAP) in each of the following situations: diabetes insipidus resulting in decreased ADH secretion ACE inhibitors prescribed to someone suffering from abnormal blood pressure.  an endurance athlete who took too much synthetic erythropoietin the week before his big race  a heart patient who took too many Beta Blockers. Include in your answer: A. The definition AND the equation for MAP (NOT the equation used to estimate MAP from BP). (2 pts) B. Whether MAP will increase or decrease in response to each of the above situations. (4 pts) C. An explanation as to WHY you think MAP is increasing or decreasing. (4 pts) Question 3: Explain why edema or dehydration does not occur in a health individual as a result of capillary exchange Include in your answer: A.    The equation for NFP – note abbreviations alone are not acceptable. (2 pts)B.    Whether each of the above values promotes filtration or reabsorption. (2 pts)C.    A discussion of the NFP at the arterial vs the venule end, the direction of fluid movement, and why the pressure changes from arterial to venule end. (4 pts)D.    Based on your understanding of bulk flow and Starlings’ law of the capillaries, do you reabsorb everything that is filtered?  If not, what happens to the fluid left behind? (2 pts) AGAIN – ANSWER ONLY 1 OF THE ABOVE QUESTIONS FOR BLOCK 1

Ashley was lying in a hammock breathing quietly. Under these conditions what would be involved in her to exhalation?

BONUS ~ 1 (3 pts): Every cell in the body possesses molecules that could act as antigens in others. DISCUSS how your own immune system “learns” not to attack your own antigens? Include in your answer: A) The name of the two processes invloved. B) What occurs in each process above.

A college sophomore is analyzing the renal clearance of an unknown drug. They collect the following data for one minute: Amount of the drug filtered by glomerulus: 100 mg Amount of the drug reabsorbed by tubules: 75 mg Amount of the drug secreted by tubules: 15 mg What is the net amount of the drug, in milligrams (mg), that is excreted in the urine after one minute?