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3.What adjustments to afferent or efferent radius can be made to compensate for the effect of reduced blood pressure on GFR

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Increasing the afferent radius or decreasing the efferent would compensate for lowered blood pressure. Increasing the afferent radius had a greater effect than decreasing the efferent radius because there was a greater increase in glomerular pressure.

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