Lipids That Are Produced by Nearly Every Tissue in the Body

question 81

Multiple Choice

Lipids that are produced by nearly every tissue in the body and act as local regulators are the

• A) prostaglandins.
• B) steroids.
• C) monoglycerides.
• D) phospholipids.
• E) glycolipids.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Rate

In neuroscience, it refers to the baseline firing rate of a neuron when not being stimulated.

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision stating that the human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to different light wavelengths.

Opponent-process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that describes how contrasting colors, emotions, and states are regulated in the human body, stating that the activation of one process automatically triggers the suppression of its opposite.

Bipolar Cell

A type of neuron found in the retina, involved in the transmission of visual signals from photoreceptors to ganglion cells.