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Question
During a study of renal glomeruli, a healthy animal kidney is kept in a vascular bath preparation at a constant afferent arterial pressure of 100 mmHg. If the efferent arteriole is constricted with a vascular clamp, which of the following Starling forces is most likely to change in the glomeruli?
Options
- ADecreased filtration coefficient (Kf)
- BDecreased hydrostatic pressure
- CDecreased oncotic pressure
- DIncreased hydrostatic pressure
- EIncreased oncotic pressure
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