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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question 1: What will happen to the glomerular capillary pressure and filtration rate if you decrease the radius of the
afferent arteriole?
Your answer : b. Both pressure and filtration rate will decrease.
Predict Question 2: What will happen to the glomerular capillary pressure and filtration rate if you increase the radius of the
afferent arteriole?
Your answer : d. Pressure will increase and filtration rate will decrease.
Predict Question 3: What will happen to the glomerular capillary pressure and filtration rate if you decrease the radius of the
efferent arteriole?
Your answer : b. Both pressure and filtration rate will decrease.
Stop & Think Questions:
Caffeine consumption leads to increased urine formation. From the results in this experiment thus far, you might propose
that
You correctly answered: d. caffeine dilates the afferent arteriole.
When you are in the desert and dehydrating, which of the following arteriole combinations would benefit you the most?
You correctly answered: c. afferent constriction and efferent dilation
Experiment Data:
Afferent Radius
(mm)
0.50
0.45
0.40
0.35
0.55
0.60
0.50
0.50
0.50
0.50
Efferent Radius
(mm)
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.40
0.35
0.30
Beaker Press.
(mm Hg)
90
90
90
90
90
90
90
90
90
90
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Glomerular Press.
(mm Hg)
55.08
51.54
48.52
46.16
58.94
62.88
55.08
56.10
56.84
57.34
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Urine Volume
(ml)
200.44
179.88
143.91
76.33
212.87
220.74
200.44
227.49
247.96
262.23
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