KROK 1 2013 – Question 135 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology

Due to the use of poor-quality measles vaccine for preventive vaccination, a 1-year-old child developed an autoimmune renal injury. The urine was found to contain macromolecular proteins. What process of urine formation was disturbed?

  1. A. Secretion
  2. B. Reabsorption and secretion
  3. C. Reabsorption
  4. D. Secretion and filtration
  5. E. Filtration
Hint

Think about where in the nephron large plasma proteins are normally held back, and which step of urine formation takes place at that site.

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