Anatomy ch 9-10 quiz

A normal WBC count is about ______ cells per microliter

5,000-10,000

Increase sodium ion concentrations in the body can be caused by which adrenal hormone?

Aldosterone

Which statement is false?

All amino acid, derivative hormones are able to circulate freely within the blood

Arise in the concentration of solute in the blood, or fall in the blood volume will cause the release of...

Antidiuretic hormone ADH

You are a 24-year-old woman who loves to run about 5 miles per day, every day. You are eating regularly and have the stamina to run long distance since, but you are very slender. One of the problems that you might likely experience would be...

Becoming pregnant

Bill wants to determine his blood type so he takes a few drops of blood from a puncture wound in his finger and mixes it with various antisera. His blood cells a gluten at one mixed with the anti-serum and anti-Rh serum, but not with the anti-serum. This means.

Bill's plasma contains anti-B antibodies

Platelets are...

Cellular fragments

Insulin causes...

Conversion of glucose to glycogen in the liver and skeletal muscles

Which of the following currently describes the backflow of blood permitted by a defective mitral valve

Left ventricle to the left atrium

Which of the following is the correct sequence in which a homeo static pathway would occur when blood glucose levels fall?

Low blood glucose, endocrine cells in the pancreas, hormone glucagon, target, liver cells, glycogen breakdown

Which hormone is a very effective antioxidant, one that may protect CNS neurons from free radicals, such as nitric oxide, N O, or hydrogen peroxide, H202

Melatonin

During the resistance, phase of the general adaptation syndrome, which hormones are responsible for maintaining blood volume in the conservation of salt and water?

Mineralocorticoids (with ADH)

Marissa had her entire thyroid gland removed because of malignant tumor. She takes synthetic thyroid hormone to replace the thyroxine that her thyroid gland would have produced, but she is worried about her blood calcium. Does she need to worry about this problem?

No, as long as she still has functional parathyroid glands, she will maintain proper levels of calcium

The effect of prolactin closely interacts with the hormone

Oxytocin

The fact that epinephrine has no apparent effect on energy, conception, unless thyroid hormones are present in normal concentrations is an example of

Permissive effect

Toxin that blocks the stomach's ability to release, intrinsic factor would most likely cause

Purnicious anemia

Which statement regarding red blood cells is true?

Red blood cells are not capable of mitosis.

The endocrine system

Relies on the release of chemicals that bind to target cells

When the chordae tendonae are loose

The AV valves are open

What is the main difference between the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways in the halting of bleeding?

The extrinsic pathway begins outside the bloodstream, whereas the intrinsic pathway begins inside the bloodstream.

The following is a list of the steps involved in the process of hemostasis and clot removal: coagulation phase, fiber, analysis, vascular phase, retraction, platelet phase

Vascular phase, platelets phase, coagulation phase, retraction, fibrinolysis 3,5,1,4,2

Plasma proteins that are necessary for blood to maintain osmotic pressure are

albumins

Which hormones secretion promotes the loss of sodium ions and water by the kidneys and inhibits renin and release

atrial natriuretic peptide

Which structural feature of cardiac muscle cells enables action potentials to travel rapidly from cell to cell

gap junctions

Which of the following hormones is/are produced by both the testes and the ovaries

inhibin

What cells produce androgens in the testes?

interstitial cells

Which of the following represents the correct sequence of stages and RBC maturation?

myeloid stem cell, proerythroblast, erythroblast, reticulocyte, RBC

The hypothalamus transports hormones to the posterior pituitary by way of

neural axons, directly

Which of the following pairs are mismatched

neutrophils: antibody production

Blood from the systemic circulation returns to the heart by way of the

venae cavae