Question

explore different cellular changes
progress: screen 07 of 09
which statement demonstrates an understanding of the cellular processes of hypertrophy and hyperplasia?
\cells, like neurons, have little capacity for hyperplastic growth.\
\a remaining kidney can sometimes undergo hyperplasia in response to one that has been removed.\
\when a patient assigned male at birth is diagnosed with an enlarged prostate gland, this is a form of hypertrophy.\
\clients with cardiomyopathy undergo myocardial hypertrophy with proportional increases in cell length and width.\

Explanation:

Neurons are terminally differentiated cells and have a very limited ability to divide and undergo hyperplastic growth. Hyperplasia is an increase in the number of cells. Neurons, once mature, do not typically replicate in significant numbers.

For the second option, when a kidney is removed, the remaining kidney undergoes hypertrophy (increase in cell size) not hyperplasia.

For the third option, an enlarged prostate gland in a male - assigned - at - birth patient is due to hyperplasia (increase in the number of glandular cells) not hypertrophy.

For the fourth option, in cardiomyopathy, myocardial hypertrophy is often not proportional. There can be disorganization of the myocardial fibers and an increase in cell size that is not in a simple proportional increase in length and width.

Answer:

A. "Cells, like neurons, have little capacity for hyperplastic growth."