A man's water intake is sufficient. However his blood concentration is always too concentrated as it passes through his hypothalamus. Why?
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A man's water intake is sufficient. However his blood concentration is always too concentrated as it passes through his hypothalamus. Why?
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Why does it make sense that the sensors and controller of body temperature reside in the brain?
A. | Because the brain enables the body's response to temperature changes | |
B. | Because deep inside the brain is considered the body's core | |
C. | Because temperature changes happen most quickly in the brain | |
D. | Because the brain works best at the correct temperature | |
E. | Because temperature changes affect the brain first |
How does the hypothalamus monitor water in the body?
A. | If blood is too concentrated, the hypothalamus nerve cells will contain too much salt. | |
B. | If blood is too concentrated, the hypothalamus it registers dehydration in its own cells. | |
C. | If blood is too concentrated, the hypothalamus registers ADH in the blood. | |
D. | If blood is too concentrated, nerve cells in the hypothalamus it has nerve cells that lose water by osmosis and fire more slowly. | |
E. | If blood is too concentrated, in the hypothalamus it registers that its cells are losing water by osmosis. |
How does the body monitor its core temperature?
A. | Nerve cells in the skin feed the information to the hypothalamus. | |
B. | The pituitary gland in the brain tracks the temperature of the blood. | |
C. | Nerve cells monitor the temperature of the hypothalamus. | |
D. | Core blood temperature alters the speed of the chemical reactions in the pituitary gland. | |
E. | Core blood temperature alters the speed of nerve cells in the hypothalamus. |
How does ADH work and what does it do?
A. | It binds to the collecting tubules in the kidney, opening pores to allow water to flow back out of the kidney into the blood. | |
B. | It binds to blood cells, making them more porous to water so it more easily diffuses back into them and is not lost in urine filtration. | |
C. | It binds to water molecules, making them too large to diffuse out of the blood stream, retaining water when the body needs it. | |
D. | It binds to nerve cells in hypothalamus, signaling that the body is dehydrated and should retain water. | |
E. | It binds to the kidney tubules, making them less porous to water so less water filters out. |
How does a fan help cool you off?
A. | Moving air is sort of the opposite of insulation. | |
B. | Conduction of heat away from the body increases. | |
C. | The moving air decreases evaporation of sweat. | |
D. | The moving air increases convection of heat to a cooler environment. | |
E. | The moving air minimizes radiative heat gain. |
It took the diagnosis of high blood pressure (hypertension) at theage of 45 to shock Max into taking better care of himself. A formercollege football player, he had let himself go, eating too muchjunk food, drinking too much alcohol, sitting on his chubby bottomfor the majority of the last two decades, and even indulging in thefrequent habit of smoking cigars. Max's physician had to prescribetwo different antihypertensive medications in order to get hisblood pressure under control. She also prescribed regular exercise,a low-salt diet, modest alcohol intake, and smoking cessation. Maxwas scared, really scared. His father had hypertension at a youngage as well, and ended up on dialysis before dying fromcomplications of kidney failure.
Fortunately for Max, he took his doctor's advice and began adramatic lifestyle change that would bring him to his present-daysituation. Now, at the age of 55, he was a master triathlon athletewho routinely placed among the top five tri-athletes of the sameage group in the country. Max's competitive spirit had been ignitedby this, but at the same time he wanted to be first among hispeers. To that end, he hired Tracey, a Certified Clinical ExerciseSpecialist, to help him gain the edge he needed to win at the endof the race. His most immediate concern was that he wasexperiencing problems with dehydration and fatigue because hehadn't found an effective way to drink enough fluids whileexercising.
Tracey showed Max an impressive array of assessment tools forquantifying and analyzing his physiological state before, during,and after his workouts. One of the tools was urinalysis, which Maxfound a bit odd, but he dutifully supplied urine samples on aregular, prescribed basis. Tracey explained that Max's hydrationstatus was tricky due to the medication he took to control hishypertension, and that renal status (as measured in the urinalysis)was one of the tools she could use to evaluate his physiologicalstate. Tracey logs the following results of Max's urinalysisimmediately after, and six hours after, a rigorous 2-hour run.
Time | Color | SpecificGravity | Protein | Glucose | pH |
Before exercise | pale yellow | 1.002 | absent | absent | 6.0 |
Immediately afterexercise | dark yellow | 1.035 | small amount | absent | 4.5 |
Six hours afterexercise | yellow | 1.025 | absent | small amount | 5.0 |
Max'surine is most concentrated before exercise. | |
Max'surine is most dilute immediately post-exercise. | |
Max'surine is least concentrated six hours post-exercise. | |
Max'surine is most dilute before exercise. |
True | |
False |
highestsix hours after Max exercises | |
highestbefore Max exercises | |
lowestimmediately after Max exercises | |
lowestbefore Max exercises |
Mostproteins pass through the glomerular membrane and are present invarying amounts in urine. | |
Fewproteins are small enough to pass through the glomerular membrane,but the few that do are reabsorbed. So, proteins are not usuallypresent in urine. | |
Allproteins are negatively charged and too large to pass through theglomerular membrane. So, proteins are not normally present inurine. | |
Mostproteins pass through the glomerular membrane and are reabsorbed.So, proteins are not present in urine. |
Glucoserequires a transport protein to get through the glomerularmembrane, so glucose in the filtrate cannot increase even whenblood glucose concentration is high. | |
Theglomerular membrane prevents glucose from entering the filtrateunless blood glucose concentration is abnormally high. | |
Thehigher the blood glucose concentration, the more glucose isfiltered through the glomerular membrane. | |
Onlysmall glucose molecules can filter through the glomerular membrane,but high blood glucose concentration increases the amount ofglucose in the filtrate. |
Thetubule cells are unable to reabsorb any glucose that enters thefiltrate. | |
Tubulecells inhibit glucose production when blood levels areelevated. | |
Reabsorption of glucose is limited by transport proteins. | |
Thetubule cells actively secrete excess glucose into thefiltrate. |
generating new bicarbonate | |
reabsorbing bicarbonate | |
secretinghydrogen | |
reabsorbing hydrogen |