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PHYS3

Heart I

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What is the pericardium? A fibrous sac that encoloses the heart
Mycoardium: Walls of the heart
What are they made of? Cardiac muscle cells
What lines the inner surface of the myocardium? Endothelium
What is endothilium AKA? Endocardium
What are the valves located between each atrium and ventricle called? AV valves
What is their purpose? prevent hte backflow of blood
What is the right AV valve? Tricuspid
Left? Bicuspid
What is the purpose of the pulmonary and aortic valves? Prevent backflow of blood from pulmonary trunk into the right ventricle and fromt he aorta into the left ventricle
Where does blood flow in order? Venca cava, right heart, pulmonary ciruclation, left heart, aorta, and sytemic circulation
How is cardiac muscle arranged? Layers that are tightly bound together
Is it similar to smooth and skeletal muscle? Yeah, it is a combo of both of their characterisitcs
CARDIAC MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS CARDIAC MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS
What are the four main characteristics? Striated, intercalated disks, gap junctions join cells and a conduction system
What does it mean for them to be striated? Actin and myosin filaments are present
What are intercalated disks? They attach myofibrils to keep cells together
What is the purpose of gap junctions? Permit APs to be conducted from cell to cell
Are they present in skeletal muscle? Nope
CONDUCTING SYSTEM CONDUCTING SYSTEM
How are teh conducting cells in contact with other cardiac muscle fibers? Uh...see above, gap junctions
What is the heart innervated by? Sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers
What specific parasympathetic nerve innervates the heart? Vagus nerve
What do sympathetic fibers release? NE
What do parasympathetic fibers release? Ach
RECEPTORS ON CARDIAC MUSCLE RECEPTORS ON CARDIAC MUSCLE
NE Receptors are: Beta adrenergic
What other messenger released from the adrenal gland can have such a similar effect to NE? EPI
What about receptor types of Ach? Muscarinic type
What arteries supply the myocardium? Coronary arteries
What do they branch from? The aeorta
HEARTBEAT COORDINATION HEARTBEAT COORDINATION
What must cardiac muscle cells do for their contraction to occur? They must have APs
What are the sinoatrial node? The conducting system cells where depolarization occurs to get the heart to beat
SEQUENCE OF EXCITATION SEQUENCE OF EXCITATION
What is the sequence of excitation starting from the SA node? SA noce-->both atria-->AV node
Where is the AV node located? Base of right atrium
What occurs at the AV node that is unique? There's a delay
See figure 12-11, P. 207 P. 397 ANALYZED BELOW
What are the components of atrial excitation? Label start and end SA (start) and AV node (end)
What are the components of the ventricular excitation? Atrial relaxation (start)
What is theresting membrane potential? -90 mV
With an AP, the membrane permeability of what 3 elements changes? Potasium, sodium, calcium
At rest, what is amount of sodium and calcium in cell? Low sodium, low calcium
At rest, what is the potasium allows in membrane potential? low patisum at rest
What happens when the sodium allowance increases? Depolarization
What does this force calcium channels to do? Calcium channels open and remain open for a while
Why do they remain open for a while? There's a slow permeability for the Caclium, so it has to come in slowly
What heppens when theCalcium channels eventually close? Repolarization
What node geneartes the current that leads to the depolarization of all other cardiac muscle cells? The SA node
What does it therefore exhibit; what is the term for this characteristic? Pacemaker potential
What is the pacemaker potential? brings the membrane potenitaial to the threshold and initiates an AP
What happens when the potasium is released from the cell? Negative membrane potential
What is autamacity and which node does it apply to? It is when the SA node can be self excited
With no humaral or neural input, what is the number of depolarizations of the SA node in a minute/ 100
THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
What is the EKG? Tool for evaluating the electrical events in the heart
What are its components? P, T, QRS waves
What is the P-wave? What does it look like? atrial depolarization; kinda of an isolated spike, first one
QRS wave: Ventricular depolarization; complex
T-wave: Ventricular replarization; little spike at end
EXCITATION CONTRACTING COUPLING EXCITATION CONTRACTING COUPLING
What is needed for excitating coupling? Where is ti released form? Calcium from the SR
What does it combine with? tropinin
What is the major signal for calcium releases in the SR? calcium entering the PM in an AP
What is this phenomena called? Calcium induced calcium release
How can you increase the force of an AP? Why can you do this? Increase CAclium, you can do this becasuse not all tropnin is saturated with calcium, so adding more calcium-->more binding-->greater force
Where does the calcium bind on the SR? Calcium receptors on the surface of SR
Where does calcium flow? into cystol
How many AP does a cardiac muscle undergo at a time? Only ONE
Why? What is tetnus and why can't the cardiac muscle undergo this? summartion of contraction; can't undergo it b/c it has a very long refractory period
What is a refractory period? period during and after an AP when an excitatble membrane can't be re-excited
Can skelatal muscle undergo tetnus? yep
Created by: talkglitter2486
 

 



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