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vallmo
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10/17/04 - 09:53 AM

Indicate whether the signals are increased or decreased:

Volume expansion Volume contraction
Renal sympat nerv ------------------- --------------------
ANP -------------------- ------------------
Renin-angiotensin ------------------- ------------------
Aldosteron ------------------- ------------------
Vasopressin ------------------- ------------------

mjl1717
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10/17/04 - 01:47 PM

Ill try to reason this out:

volume contraction (eg. diarrhea or )
renal symp.-increase, constricted arterioles
ANP -decrease
renin angioten.-increase
aldosterone-increase
vasopressin-increase

I believe the above entities are opposite in volume expansion.
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