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#Question id: 11939


Which of the following would cause the greatest degree of hyperkalemia?

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. Increase in potassium intake from 60 to 180 mmol/day in a person with normal kidneys and a normal aldosterone system
  2. Chronic treatment with a diuretic that inhibits the action of aldosterone
  3. Decrease in sodium intake from 200 to 100 mmol/day
  4. Chronic treatment with a diuretic that inhibits loop of Henle Na+-2Cl−-K+ co-transport
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#Question id: 1393

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

In research on aging (both cellular aging and organismal aging), it has been found that aged cells do not progress through the cell cycle as they had previously. Which of the following, if found in cells or organisms as they age, would provide evidence that this is related to cell signalling?

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#Question id: 1394

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Apoptosis involves all but which of the following?

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#Question id: 1395

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Which of the following mutations would promote malignancy in cells whose proliferation is inhibited by TGFβ?

a. overexpression of Smad2               

b. loss of Smad 4

c. overexpression of TGFβ receptor I

d. loss of TGFβ receptor II

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#Question id: 1396

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Trks are:

a. endonucleases.        b. transmembrane receptors.   c. proteases.     d. protein kinases.      

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#Question id: 1397

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

The vertebrate equivalent of CED-9 is:

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#Question id: 1398

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Which of the following properties is (are) characteristic of a benign tumor?

a. well differentiated              b. localized to tissue of origin             c. metastatic               

d. promotes angiogenesis        e. surrounded by a fibrous capsule