KROK 1 2011 – Question 50 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
As a result of continuous starvation the glomerular filtration rate has increased by 20%. The most probable cause of the glomerular filtration alteration under the mentioned conditions is:
- A. Increase of the renal blood flow
- B. Increase of the filtration quotient
- C. Increase in the permeability of the renal filter
- D. Increase in the systemic arterial pressure
- E. Decrease in the oncotic pressure of blood plasma
Hint
Think about what prolonged lack of food does to the circulating fluid of the body, and which force in the filtration equation depends on its composition.
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