BIO 104L LAB MANUAL
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781307126853
Author: Mader
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 36, Problem 1TS
High blood pressure often is accompanied by kidney damage. In some people, the kidney is subsequent to the high blood pressure, but in others the kidney damage is the cause of the high blood pressure. Explain how a bow-salt would enableyou to determine whether the high blood pressure the key damage came first.
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