KROK 1 2023 – Question 95 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A 60-year-old woman has congestive heart failure with increased cardiac preload. What bioactive substance will be secreted by the heart in this case?
- A. Angiotensin II
- B. Vasopressin
- C. Atrial natriuretic peptide
- D. Gastric inhibitory peptide
- E. Aldosterone
Hint
Decide which listed substances are made elsewhere (blood plasma, hypothalamus, intestine, adrenal cortex) and which hormone the heart itself could release in response to stretch of its wall.
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