QUIZ NOTES Flashcards
Stimulation of what nerve reduces heart rate?
Vagus nerve
What is responsible for gas exchange and nutrients of tissues?
Capillaries
Which chamber receives blood from the systemic circuit?
Right atrium
Intestinal blood flows into the liver how?
The hepatic portal vein.
What do lymph nodes have?
More ducts entering the node than leaving
What cell is phagocytic?
Macrophage
How do surfactant help prevent the alveoli from collapsing?
Interfering with the cohesiveness of water molecules by reducing the surface tension of the alveolar fluid.
What alveoli cells produce surfactant?
Type II alveolar cells
What are cytokines?
Stimulate or inhibit normal cell functions such as growth and differentiation.
How do complement proteins work?
Phagocytosis of target cells.
What determines the direction of respiratory gas movement?
Partial pressure gradient
What hormone functions to counteract the affect of gastric acid in the small intestine?
Secretin
What is GHP? Glomerular Hydrostatic Pressure
A force that pushes water and solutes out of the blood across the filtration membrane.
The hormone gastric releases what?
Gastric juice
What does ADH do?
Increase extracellular fluid osmolality
What do parietal cells secrete?
Hydrochloric acid
The formation of endodermal and ectodermal germ layers occurs where?
Gastrulation
Epidymis is the right of what?
Sperm maturation
What controls the release of anterior pituitary gonadotropins?
GnRH
What causes a decrease in GnRH?
Testosterone
What carries a protective fluid?
Amnion
What is progesterone?
Prepares endometrium for implantation
What is GnRH?
Stimulates the release of FSH & LH
What is relaxin?
Increases flexibility of pubic symphysis during labour.
