KROK 1 2019 – Question 60 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
In an experiment a laboratory rat was subjected to a stress factor (electric current), which resulted in muscular hypotonia, arterial hypotension, hypothermia, and hypoglycemia in the animal. What period of general adaptation syndrome is it?
- A. Exhaustion stage
- B. Resistance stage
- C. Shock phase
- D. Antishock phase
- E. -
Hint
Look at the direction of every change: are blood pressure, temperature and glucose falling or rising, and what does that say about the moment in the stress response?
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