A person’s normal tidal volume is 400 ml with a dead space of 100 ml. The respiratory rate is 12 breaths/min. The person is placed on ventilator for surgery and the tidal volume is 700 with a rate of 12. What is the approximate alveolar Pco2 for this person?

#Question id: 11497

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Which of the following is best described as an elongated, encapsulated receptor found in the dermal pegs of glabrous skin and is especially abundant on lips and fingertips?

#Question id: 11496

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Forced rapid breathing results in alkalization of the blood which would lead to which of the following changes in neuronal activity?

#Question id: 11495

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In a neuron with a resting membrane potential of −65mV, the distribution of which ion across the neuronal membrane represents the greatest potential electromotive force (EMF)?

#Question id: 11226

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

At the neuromuscular junction, the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) is degraded by acetylcholinesterase. If a neurophysiologist applies the naturally occurring acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, onchidal (produced by the mollusc Onchidella binneyi), to a synapse, what would you expect to happen?

#Question id: 11225

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

What happens if twice as many inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) as excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) arrive in close proximity at a postsynaptic neuron?

#Question id: 11224

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

How could you increase the magnitude of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) generated at a synapse?