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What is the hormone made by beta cells
What is insulin
What is the natural pacemaker of the heart
What is the sinoatrial node (SA node)
What is the function of lymph nodes
What is filtering lymph and monitoring pathogens
What is the main muscle for quiet breathing
what is the diaphragm
What is the enzyme that digests proteins in the stomach in the active and inactive form
What is pepsin and pepsinogen
Most abundant plasma protein
what is albumin
Gas exchange occurs in which vessels
What are capillaries
What is the duct that drains most lymph
what is the thoracic duct
what substance prevents alveolar collapse
what is surfactant
What is the organ that produces and the organ that stores bile
What is the liver and the gallbladder
What are the hormones secreted by the adrenal medulla
epinephrine and norepinephrine
What is the major artery leaving the left ventricle
What is the aorta
What are the cells that kill virus-infected cells
what are NK cells
what is the kidneys main functional unit
what is the nephron
What is the name of the intestinal absorption folds
What are villi and microvilli
What is the function of hemoglobin
what is carries oxygen and carbon dioxide
What is the function of the venous valves
What is preventing backflow of blood in veins
What are the immune cells that produce antibodies
What are B cells
What are the main four entities associated with urine conservation/ release
what is ADH, Aldosterone, RAAS system, and ANP
What is the hormone that triggers ovulation
What is Lutenizing Hormone (LH)
What is the cause of sickle cell anemia
What is a genetic mutation affecting hemoglobin/ sickle cell mutation
What are the tissues in blood vessels, and where are they located
what is tunica externa = connective tissue
what is tunica media = smooth muscle
what is tunica intima = epithelial tissue
What is the difference between antigen and antibody
What is antigens trigger immune response, antibodies target antigens
what is the definition of osmolality
what is the concentration of solutes per kilogram of solvent
Where is the site of sperm production
What is the seminiferous tubules