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Heart I

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