KROK 1 2008 – Question 171 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Rats being under stress have muscular hypertonia and high arterial pressure, high glucose concentration in blood and intensified secretion of corticotropin and corticosteroids. In what stress phase are these animals?
- A. Terminal
- B. Exhaustion
- C. Erectile
- D. Shock phase
- E. Antishock phase
Hint
Recall the sequence of phases in Selye's alarm reaction and compare their blood pressure, glucose and pituitary-adrenal activity with the findings in the rats.
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