Questions and CORRECT Answers
capillaries between the arterioles and the venules - CORRECT ANSWER - In the systemic
vasculature, oxygen mostly leaves hemoglobin in blood across the endothelium in:
right atrium - CORRECT ANSWER - Blood that has been deoxygenated during its
passage through capillaries in the ventricular myocardium
first enters the:
aorta - CORRECT ANSWER - Pressure in the _____________ drives blood through the
capillaries of the right ventricular myocardium.
end diastolic volume and ventricular myocardial sarcomere length - CORRECT
ANSWER - In the accompanying figure, the double-headed arrow between A and C is
longer than the arrow between A and B. This represents an increase in ____________
macrophages, professional antigen presenting cells - CORRECT ANSWER - During
inflammation, monocytes become ___________ and mature into _________________.
increase heart rate and decrease heart rate - CORRECT ANSWER - Forskolin is a drug
that activates adenylyl cyclase. You would expect this drug to:
at all intervals except between C and D - CORRECT ANSWER - In the accompanying
figure, pressure in the left ventricular chamber would be less than the pressure in the aorta
between:
. A - CORRECT ANSWER - At what point in the accompanying pressure volume curve
does the left atrioventricular (mitral) valve open?
, the low pressure venous return - CORRECT ANSWER - The atrioventricular valves are
opened by:
c. PQ interval - CORRECT ANSWER - In the accompanying electrocardiogram, action
potentials propagate through the bundle branches and Purkinje fibers during:
a. during P - CORRECT ANSWER - In the accompanying electrocardiogram, the final
phase diastolic filling occurs:
decrease with with the fourth power of the radius, r^4 and decreases as the narrowing increases
the resistance to flow - CORRECT ANSWER - In coronary artery disease, which results
from vessel blockage(occlusion), the dangerous effect of vessel narrowing results because the
amount of blood flowing to the myocardial capillaries from the coronary arteries:
a. protein in plasma, osmotic - CORRECT ANSWER - During the production of lymph
_________ generates a(n) _____________ force to return fluid to the capillary
a. increase, decreasing vascular resistance - CORRECT ANSWER - During periods of
increased sympathetic activity, drugs that block the alpha 1 norepinephrine receptor on arteriolar
smooth muscle would be expected to ______________ blood flow by _______________.
c. c - CORRECT ANSWER - In the accompanying diagram, a memory B lymphocyte
would bind cytokines from a T helper cell soon after:
c. between the postganglionic neurons and conductile cardiomyocytes - CORRECT
ANSWER - Blocking the muscarinic receptors that inhibit adenylyl cyclase would affect
synaptic transmission predominately:
c. buffy coat - CORRECT ANSWER - When blood is spun in a centrifuge, T cell receptors
are found in the:
c. Plasma B cells - CORRECT ANSWER - Mitochondria are found in: