A 65-year-old man with emphysema due to 34 years of cigarette smoking is admitted to hospital due to dyspnea. With further tests the mean pulmonary arterial pressure is determined to be 45 mm Hg at rest. He is hypoxic (PO2 = 49 mm Hg), hypercapnic (85 mm Hg), and slightly acidotic. The cardiovascular and oxygen changes are due to which of the following?

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Pain receptors in the skin are typically classified as which of the following?

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#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?

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#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?

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#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)?

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#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?

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