Renal Physiology (humans)     a) When blood pressure declines, granular cells produce renin, an enzyme that enters the circulatory system and cleaves angiotensinogen.   b) Aldosterone acts on cells of the collecting duct to cause both sodium reabsorption into blood and potassium secretion into urine.   c) The production of excess aldosterone by an adrenal tumor would indirectly lead to the hyperpolarization of excitable cardiac cells.   d) Both (a) and (b) are correct and (c) is incorrect   e) Statements (a), (b) and (c) are all correct

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a) When blood pressure declines, granular cells produce renin, an enzyme that enters the circulatory system and cleaves angiotensinogen.

 
b) Aldosterone acts on cells of the collecting duct to cause both sodium reabsorption into blood and potassium secretion into urine.
 

c) The production of excess aldosterone by an adrenal tumor would indirectly lead to the hyperpolarization of excitable cardiac cells.

 
d) Both (a) and (b) are correct and (c) is incorrect
 
e) Statements (a), (b) and (c) are all correct
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