Blood Flow Flashcards
each tissue control its own
blood flow in proportion to its needs
tissues blood flow is closely related to its
metabolic rate
as metabolic rate increases,
tissue blood flow increases
skeletal muscle blood flow
don’t get much even though make up a lot of body weight
every day exercise will do what to skeletal muscle
increase the blood flow to the skeletal muscles
why not just give all the blood flw all they might ever need?
heart can’t keep up with that, so it jsut gives tissues what they need
what is acute control
local control within tissues: rapid, seconds to minutes
vasoconstriction and vasodilation is acute or long term control?
acute
what is long term control
increases/derease in size and number of blood vessels
how long does long term control take
ours, days, weeks -takes awhile
how long does acute control take
not long - imediate
for us students, where should a lot of blood flow be going right now?
brain
what factor is most important for blood flow control
oxygen
as oxygen saturation decreases, blood flow
increases
locally in interstitial fluid, the cells are eating up oxygen which is what causes
blood flow to increase
physiological examples where blood flow increases
high altitudes
pneumonia
carbon monoxide poisoning
cyanide poisoning
high altitudes pneumonia carbon monoxide poisoning cyanide poisoning the common theme in all of these, that cause blood flow to increase is:
lower oxygen throughout body
cyanide poisoning
doesn’t allow oxygen to bind in body
vasodilator theory
when the cell is using up oxygen it releases substances like adenosine, CO2, lactic acid ,postassium ions, histamine, and the local substances diffuse back to the arterioles and dilate them, the dilation causes increase in blood flow to the tissue that is releasing the chemicals
adenosine is biproduct of
ATP
why is adenosine high when cells are using oxygen
adenosine is biproduct of ATP
adenosine in heart
dilator
when heart is oorking hard puping oxygen, what is a local dilator that causes blodo vessels going to heart to dilate
adenosine
oxygen demand theory, how do we know its a thing
you can block all of the mediators from going out and you still have local control, so will still have increased blod flow
describe oxygen demand theory
when oxygen is high precapillary sphincters contract and blood won’t go through where there is high oxygen. if oxygen is low the precapilary sphincter sense low oxygen and open up and blood goes through the area and brings oxygen to it
reality, what theory is it?
combination of both theories
the way we increase blood flow the two theories: oxygen demand & vasodilator theory are independent of
nerves
all the capilaries arent always
open
the oxygen demand and vasodilatory theory are more powerful than
nerve control
active hyperemia
increased blood flow, occurs when tissue metabolic rate increases
reactive hyperemia
Occurs after the Tissue Blood Supply Is Blocked for a Short Time
look at graphs on pg 11
11
if you occlude artery going to muscle, then you release occulsion, describe what happens to blood flow
blood flwo goes higher than normal to resupply and then iwill come back down
the longer you occlude an artery the higher the
reactive hyperemia is
autoregulation, what is it
if you increase the pressure gradient to a tissue the flow goes up to that tissue but then blood flow will go back down, so the tissue is autoregulating its own blood flow
maintainign a constant bloodf low to a tissue regardless of arterial pressure
all tissues have
autoregulation
what two mechanisms are involved in autoregulation
metabolic & myogenic mechanism
metabolic theory
when you increase blood flow it will wash away the stuff (like adenosine) that caused the increase in blood flow, causing it gto go back down
myogenic theory
just property f blood vessels
Based on fact that sudden stretch of small blood vessels and arterioles will cause smooth muscle cells of vessel to contract (they don’t really understand why)
review graph pg 13
13
factors released from endothelial cells of blood vessels help control
blood flow
two important things released from endothelial cells in blodo vessels
nitric oxide
endothelin