KROK 1 2018 – Question 63 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A test animal receives electrical impulses that irritate the sympathetic nerve that innervates blood vessels of the skin. What reaction will it cause in the blood vessels?
- A. Arterial and venous constriction
- B. No reaction
- C. Arterial dilation
- D. Arterial and venous dilation
- E. Venous dilation
Hint
Ask what the sympathetic transmitter does to smooth muscle in skin vessels, and whether resistance and capacitance vessels respond alike.
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