Sympathetic Stimulation of the Kidney Can Do All of the Following

question 89

Multiple Choice

Sympathetic stimulation of the kidney can do all of the following except

• A) produce powerful vasoconstriction of the afferent arterioles.
• B) increase the glomerular filtration rate.
• C) trigger renin release.
• D) produce renal ischemia.
• E) reduce blood flow to kidneys.

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Definitions:

Regional Metamorphism

Metamorphism affecting an extensive region and related mostly to regional burial, heating, and deformation of rocks.

Contact Metamorphism

Metamorphism that principally involves heating of the rocks next to a magma or hot igneous material.

Subduction

The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge.

Thrust Faulting

A type of faulting where one rock layer is pushed up and over another due to compressional forces.