A&P Exam 3 Flashcards
How does Boyle’s Law relate to pulmonary ventilation?
Gasses fill containers
If it is a large volume→ molecules don’t hit each other, so there is low pressure
If small area → molecules will hit wall and each other often = high pressure
P1V1=P2V2
What happens during quiet inspiration?
Inspiration → enlarge thoracic cavity
Decreases pressure (less than atmospheric) → air moves in
What Muscles are used in inspiration?
-Flattens diarphragm= increase height of the thoracic cavity
-External intercoatals= lift ribs and sternum= greater diameter by a few m
-Decreases pressure by 1mmHg=500ml
What Happens during deep inspiration?
-7x= 3500ml
-Mucles:
Accessory muscles →scalenes, …→ scalenes erect spine
What happens during normal expiration?
-Muscles engaged in inspiration relax= causes passive recoil
-Decreases thoracic cavity volume→ decreases volume→ increase pressure by 1mmHg
What Happens During Forced Exhale?
-Oblique and transverse abs–>Force abdominal organs against the diaphragm
-Internal Intercostals–>Depress rib cage further
-Both of these decrease thoracic volume which increases pulmonary pressure
Cough
-deep breath, close glottis, force air out, open glottis, air rushes out
Laugh/cry
inspiration and several short expirations
Sneeze
cough through your nose
hiccups
diaphragm spasms
Yawn
deep inspiration, jaw opens, ventilates alveoli
Airway Resistance
-flow= change and pressure over resistance
-Resistance–>medium bronchi
-Flow stops at terminal bronchial b/c diffusion takes over
Alveolar Surface Tension
-Water molecules are polar, so they are attracted to each other= surface tension
-This attraction by itself would collapse alveoli
-Surfactant= lipid protein detergent →Type 2 alveolar cells→ decrease water cohesion
Homeostatic Imbalance in Surfactant
-Premature infants born with respiratory distress
-Alveoli/ lungs collapse
-Treatment is artificial surfactant
Lung compliance
-Healthy lungs are compliant and stretchy more the lungs expand w/ an increase in transpulmonary pressure= more compliance
Homeostatic Imbalance in Lung compliance
-Inflammation
-Scarring or decrease surfactant
-Less compliant
-Makes it hard to breath
Tidal volume
-500ml
-amount of air exchanged in normal quiet inhale
Inspiratory reserve volume
-the amount of air that may be inspired after a tidal inspiration
-1,900-3,100 mL
Expiratory reserve volume
-amount of air that may be expired after a tidal respiration
-700-1,200mL
Residual volume
-the amount of air in the lungs after maximal expiration
-1,100-1,200mL
Inspiratory capacity
TV+IRV
Amount of air a person can maximally inspire after tidal volume
2,400-3,600
Functional residual capacity
-amount of air left in lungs after tidal expiration
-ERV+RV
-1,800-2,400
Vital capacity
-total amount of exchangeable air in and out of the lungs
-3,100-4,800mL
-TV+IRV+ERV
Total lung capacity
-total amount of exchangeable and non exchangeable air in the lungs
-TV+IRV+ERV+RV
Dalton’s Law
Total Pressure= sum of partial pressure
Dalton Law w/ Air
Air= 760 mmHg (100%)
-79 % nitrogen=597 mm Hg
-21% Oxygen=159 mm HG
-0.04% CO2=0.3 mmHg
-0.5% H2O=3.7 mmHg
Henry’s Law
-Gas will dissolve in liquid in portion to partial pressure
-How much also depends on gas solubility and temperature
Example of Henry’s Law with Air
-CO2 most soluble
-O2 1/20th as soluble
-N2=Poorly Soluble
What is the respiratory membrane?
Alveoli= 300x 10^6
Most of the lung column is alveoli= a lot of surface area for gas exchange
3 Types of Alveoli Cells
1.Type 1
2.Type 2
3.Alveolar macrophages
Type 1 Alveolar Cells
Alveolar cells
Flimsy basement membrane
Pulmonary capillary endothelium
Respiratory membrane 0.5 micron
Type 2 Alveolar Cells
-Make surfactant
-Make surface tension
Alveolar Macrophages
-Dust cells= sweep what we don’t want
-Keep things sterile
-Swept up by cilia
-At a rate of 2 million cells an hour we swallow what is swept up
External respiration
-co2 in blood→air
-deoxyhemoglobin(O2=40and CO2=45 and gets swapped) encounters
pulmonary gas exchange and becomes oxyhemoglobin (O2=100 and CO2=40)
-driven by pressure
Internal respiration
-gas exchange that occurs with tissues
-blood has O2=100 and CO2=40 and tissue has O2-40 and CO2=45
-O2 enters and Co2 leaves tissue
Cellular respiration
6o2+C6H12O6→6H2O+6CO2+ATP(E) +Heat
Factors that Influence Gas Exchange
1.Partial Pressure and solubility of gas
-O2 gradient larger, but still reaches equilibrium in ¼ a second
-Co2 gradient is small and is 20x more soluble
-Need stable Co2 for blood pH
2.Thickness of respiratory membrane
-Can increase b/c of scaring
3.Ventilation-perfusion coupling
-Match Ventilation to blood flow in pulmonary capillaries
-If O2 is low= pulmonary capillary constriticion which moves blood to respiratory areas where O2 is high
-If O2 is high = dilation
-If Co2 is high =bronchial dilation
What percent of blood is dissolved and what percent is not?
1.5% is dissolved= poorly soluble
98.5% Hb bound= oxyhemoglobin= HbO2
Describe how oxygen binding changes Hb shape and affinity
-1 molecule of hemoglobin carries 4 O2 molecules
-First O2 binds to Hb→ Hb changes shape→ greater affinity for O2
-Makes it easier to bind 3 other O2
-4 O2=saturated
What Decreases Hemoglobin saturation?
Greater temp
Lower pH
Greater Co2
What increases Hb saturation?
-Less temp
-Lower pH
-Lower CO2
-Metabolically active tissue
Briefly describe the right shift vs left shift of the O2-Hb dissociation curve
Right shift in Curve=
-Increase saturation
-Weakens Hb and O2 bond which decresaes affinity
Bohr Effect:
A. Lower pH & increase Co2= more O2 release
B.Exercise= need more O2 for muscles
-Increase blood flow
-O2 is unloading at the muscle
-Decrease Hb affinity(attraction) to O2
HI in Oxygen Saturation
1.Hypoxia-Inadequate O2 Delivery
2.Cyanosis-Hb saturation is less than 75%
3.Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
-Hb has high affinity for Co2
-After 1 hr of pure O2, but Co levels will only drop by 50%
3 ways CO2 is transported
1.Plasma
2. Hemoglobin
3. Bicarbonate
How much Co2 is Transported in Plasma
20%=pCO2
How much of the body’s Co2 is in hemoglobin and how does it bind to it?
-20%–>CO2Hb=carbaminohemoglobin
-Bind to globin not heme but decreases affinity (more O2 released)
-In lungs → O2 “kicks off” Co2
How much CO2 is carried by bicarbonate and how is it carried in bicarbonate?
-70%
-Steps
1.Co2 enters RBC with water
2. + Carbonic Anyhydrase=H2Co3
-Carbonic acid
-unstable/ dissociates
3. →H + HCO3(bicarbonate)
4.Bicarbonate goes into plasma and chloride shift occurs causing cl-
ions to enter counteracting the trreease of an Ions
4.The H binds to hemoglobin causing the Bohr Effect= release O2 into tissue
and cells
How is ventilation controlled?
1.Control of pH by ventilatory Rate
2.Neural Control
how does pH control ventilation?
-Co2 increase in blood= slow shallow breaths= decrease pH and more carbonic acid
-Decrease co2 in blood= rapid and deep breathing= increase pH
How do Neural Controls Effect Ventilation?
High brain centers
1. Hypthalymus: pain and emotion
Cerebral Cortex: voluntary
2. Medulla: Inspiratory Center
Starts and stops inspiration
pacemaker= 12- 16 breath per minute
Sends impulses to the diaphragm via phrenic nerve
Sends impulses to incercoastal muscles via intercostal nerves
3. Pons
Smooths out the breathing rhy
What factors influence Respiratory Rate?
1.Chemoreceptors
2.Mechanoreceptors
How do Chemoreceptors influence respiratory rate?
-In aortic arch, brain, and muscles
1.Arterial CO2
Increase Co2= lower pH= increase respiration
pCo2>23Hg= hypercapnia
pCO2,37mmHg=Hypocapnia
decreasepCO2= increasepH= decrease Respiration
2.Arterial H+
decreasepH= increase respiratory rate
3.Arterial pO2
Less sensitive
<60mmHg
How do mechanoreceptors influence respiratory rate?
-Irritant receptors and stretch
-Increases or decreases respiratory rate
Respiratory Tracts as an embryo
Development is cephalocaudal
Respiratory tract 4 weeks into development
Olfactory Placodes→Olfactory pits →Nose
Palate–>Cleft lip/ palate occurs at this time
Respiratory Tract at 28 weeks of development
Can breath
No surfactant
Breath→ amiontic fluid, vascular shunts bypass lungs
Respiratory tract at birth
Respiratory rate= 60/min
Respiratory tract post birth in life
-5 years= 25/min
-adult=12/min
Age:
1. Increases respiratory rate, loss or elasticity, nose dry, mucus thicker
2.Decrease in ciliary activity = increase infections
3.Sluggish macrophages
Kidney Location
Located behind the the peritoneal cavity →retroperitoneal
Right kidney is lower than the left
Renal fascia and perirenal fat capsule support and hold it in place
Kidney Structure
- Capsul
-Fibrous
-Protects and encloses - Cortex
-Outer layer
-Collecting ducts and nephrons are located here - Medulla
-Interior from cortex
-Contains pyramids
-Where urine is made
-Has renal papilla on it’s central end and drains into the minor calyx
-Minor Calyx drains into major calyx → renal pelvis to
Ureter→renal bladder
Kidney Functions
-Processes blood
-Goes through entire blood plasma a day
blood= 1,200ml/min →120ml/min filterate=180L/day in filterate, but 99% is
reabsorbed= 1.5 L of urine left over
What do nephrons make
filterate