Category: Uncategorized

You have just eaten French fries, pizza and ice cream.  Which of the following glands would be active in helping you digest this fatty food?

A mother brings her child to the ER, reporting that the toddler has had diarrhea for 2 days and refuses to drink any fluids. The child is at risk for:

Which of the choices below is the salt (solute) level-monitoring part of the nephron?

The responsibility for urine formation lies with the urinary bladder.

A patient was burned over 20% of their body. As a result the damaged cells will release their contents into the ECF. A blood test reveals an increase of what intracellular component?

The function unique to the nephron loop is to

ANP is an important hormone in water and electrolyte homeostasis. In the blanks below answer the following questions regarding ANP. ANP is released in response to what stimulus? Where is the sensor / integration center (where does ANP come from)? what is the effect of ANP release on water electrolyte balance?

If the glomerular filtration rate is too low, needed substances may pass so quickly through the renal tubules that they are not absorbed and instead are lost in urine.

Water imbalances can have significant effects on our normal functioning (homeostasis). Answer the following questions on the types of water imbalances. Overhydration: is this a hypertonic, isotonic or hypotonic imbalance? would you expect to see an increase or decrease in the hormone renin?  would you expect to see an increase or decrease in the hormone ADH? 

Which is the best description of The cells that line the proximal convoluted tubule? Think form and function.