NURS 617 Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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NURS 617
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NURS 617
A direct result of anaerobic metabolism during hypoxic cell injury is:
a. increased ATP
b. metabolic acidosis
c. tissue ischemia
d. all of the above.
b. metabolic acidosis
Rationale: When oxygen is not available, cells switch to anaerobic metabolism, which
yields an acid called lactate,...
NURS 617 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers the Latest Update
A direct result of anaerobic metabolism during hypoxic cell injury is:
a. increased ATP
b. metabolic acidosis
c. tissue ischemia
d. all of the above.
✓ b. metabolic acidosis
✓
✓ Rationale: When oxygen is not available, cells switch to anaerobic metabolism, which
yields an acid called lactate, or lactic acid.
Accumulation of which of the following molecules results in irreversible cell
✓ c. dysplasia.
✓ Rationale: (Chronic infection or inflammation is a common cause of cervical
dysplasia.)
Ethanol (alcohol) causes cell injury by which of the following mechanisms?
a. Cellular dehydration
b. Intracellular sodium loss
c. Lipid accumulation in hepatocytes
d. Hypoxic injury
✓ c. Lipid accumulation in hepatocytes
✓
✓ Rationale: Ethanol metabolism causes lipid accumulation in hepatocytes that
decreases liver function and may result in liver cirrhosis.
In compensatory hyperplasia, growth factors stimulate cell division in response
✓ c. tissue loss.
✓
✓ Rationale: In response to tissue loss, surrounding cells are stimulated to replace the
lost tissue.
In response to an increased workload, such as that caused by high blood
pressure (hypertension), myocardial cells in the left ventricle will adapt through
the process of:
a. hyperplasia.
b. hypertrophy.
c. atrophy.
d. dysplasia.
✓ b. hypertrophy.
✓
✓ Rationale: In response to the increased workload of hypertension, myocardial cells
will hypertrophy in order to pump harder.
Injury to the endoplasmic reticulum due to hypoxic injury results in:
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