The heart's ability to vary stroke volume based solely on changes in end-diastolic volume is based on what mechanism?
a. Automaticity
b. Autoregulation
c. Bohr equation
d. Frank-Starling's law
ANS: D
The heart's ability to change stroke volume solely according to the EDV is an intrinsic regulatory mechanism based on the Frank-Starling's law.
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