Cardio 2 L8 ( Cradiac Regulation ) Flashcards
How is the heart regulated?
By two levels each of this levels may relazied neural , humoral or some other mechanism
What is the two levels that regulated the heart ?
-1- intercardiac : relating to the mechanism which are appears and situated within the heart And its 4 mechanism: 1-interacellular 2-extracellular 3-neuronal 4- humoral
-2- extracardiac : relating to the mechanism, tissue , cells , organs which are all involved directly or indirectly in the regulation of heart and situated outside the heart
And its 2 mechanism:
1- neuronal
2- humeral
What is the intercellular level includes ?
1- Atrophy
2-hypertrophy
3- direct dependence of strength on the rate
4- frank starling law
Explain the atrophy and hypertrophy of the intercellular level ?
- hypertrophy : its the enlargement of myocard from the increase in size of its cells as a result of increasing a number of contractile proteins ( actin and myosin ) or cardiomyocytes in whole
- atrophy : its opposite process waste away , especially as a result of contractile proteins degeneration or cardiocytes number decreasing
Explain the direct dependence if strength in contraction frequency ( intercellular )
- the high frequency of the heart contraction dose not allow its sarcomeres ( during diastole ) to pump the calcium from the sarcoplasm of the calcium depots
- thus each following contraction ( in systole) begins in condition of increasing of calcium contraction in sarcoplasm
- so the higher amount if calcium results in the higher amount of energy in each if the sarcomere, this increases the myocardium activity
Explain the frank starling law ( intercellular)
- the strength of the contraction of muscle ( cardyocytes ) is directly promotional to an expansion of this muscle during its previous relaxation
What is the physiological importance of frank starling mechanism ?
Its lies mainly in the maintaining left and right ventricular output equality
Explain the extracellular regulation
Syncytium ( intercardiac level )
- syncytium : Its mean tissue with cytoplasmic continuity between adjacent cells
- Cardiac muscle is like a physiological syncytium since there is no continuity of cytoplasm and the muscles fibres are separated from each other by cell membrane
- the membrane of adjacent muscles fibres fuse together to form -gap junctions
- so extracellular regulation realizes due to a nexus : special electrical gaps of cardiomyocytes which have a low threshold level , if at any reason nexuses change there threshold so an excitability of the whole myocardium will change oppositely , and in appropriate manner will change the activity of the heart
- extracellular regulation realizes due to a nexus ( yes or no )
Yes
Explain the syncytium in human
Syncytium in human heart have two portion
1- syncytium of atria
2- syncytium of ventricles
Both portions if syncytium are connected by a thick non-conducting fibrous ring called - atrioventricular ring - in organism only the heart works as the functional syncytium , heart is tissue which mean a group of cells but works like all together one cell
Explain the intercardiac neuronal regulation
- A bainbridge reflex is an increasing of strength of the left ventricle upon a increase of venous return to a right atrium, and its carried out by cardio-cardiac reflex
- the bainbridge reflex is triggered when the stretch receptor in the atria are triggered- thats mean that there is an increased level of venous blood return
- So higher the venous return to right atrium higher contraction of left ventricle
Explain what is the bainbridge reflex and baroreceptor reflex and what is the relationship between them
- bainbridge reflex: is one of the intercardiac neural mechanism
- baroreceptor reflex: its one of the extracadiac mechanism
- The relationship between them is antagonistically thats mean if venous blood pressure in atrium is much changing the bainbridge reflex is dominant , and if for example the carotid artery baroreceptor indicates much arterial blood pressure chaining thats mean baroreceptor is dominant
Explain the inercardiac humoral regulation
1- accumulation of metabolites during intensive heart working like : Co2,H+,Lactic acid , H2CO3
2- blocking of à-adrenoreceptor
3-cardiac stimulation
What is the 4 greek terms to describe key physiological properties of the heart ? And when its discovered and by whom ?
Its discovered by Engelmann in 1897
- 1-inotropy
- 2-chronotropy
- 3-dromotropy
- 4-bathmotropy
Explain the inotropy and what its mean in greek
Inotropy : its the strength of contraction pertaining to the force or energy of muscular contraction particularly those of the heart
Inos = fibres , trope - turning