Gastroparesis is a condition that causes a partial paralysis of the stomach. The stomach has reduced ability to contract to move food through the digestive system. Some common symptoms of gastroparesis are abdominal pain, nausea, and feeling full after eating a small amount of food. What would be the most likely cause of this condition? A. damage to nerves that control the stomach B. lack of pancreatic juices and bile C. lack of enzymes in the small intestine D. damage to the mucus lining of the stomach

The following image is of a diatom. it lives in water and gets food from photosynthesis. it is encased in a hard shell made of something similar to glass or sand . a diatom is a(n) because it has a) multi-celled organism; specialized parts. b) vertebrate; a skeleton. c) insect; an exoskeleton. d) single-called organism; only one cell.

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i.e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).

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