Question 146

Angiotensin is an oligopeptide in the blood that causes vasoconstriction, increased blood pressure, and release of aldosterone from the adrenals.
A major action of angiotensin II is:
  • Question 147

    Mode is defined as the number that occurs most frequently in a set of numbers.
    The value that occurs most frequently in a set of results or values would be termed:
  • Question 148

    The conidia of Exophiala species are produced within phialides that extrude the conidia in tight, ball-like clusters.
    The large, drum stick-shaped muriform macroconidia of Alternaria species are arranged in short chains; the small, elliptical conidia of Cladosporium species are arranged in both long and short, branching chains.
    Which of the following dematiaceous fungal species produce conidia in clusters?
  • Question 149

    The correct answer which best fits the characteristics in this question is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
    What is the MOST likely identity of an acid-fast bacilli that showed buff colored, dry, heaped colonies; niacin, nitrate, and urease positive; and took 23 days at 35ºC to grow?
  • Question 150

    Bicarbonate and Chloride form an exchanger to help regulate and buffer the body's pH.
    The buffering capacity of blood is maintained by a reversible exchange process between bicarbonate and: