Cardiovascular Physiology and Complex CHD Flashcards
What does adenosine do to coronary artery flow
Causes coronary artery vasodilation
Where is calcium stored in a mature myocyte and how is it released
- Sarcoplasmic reticulum
- Calcium enters through L type voltage gated channels when then activates the ryanodine receptor and causes calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum
How does renin get released from the kidney
- In response to lower renal perfusion pressure from the juxtaglomerular apparatus
- Leads to cleavage of angiotensinogen to angiotensin I and then angiotensin II by ACE
- Angiotensin II then induces vasoconstriction and stimulates ADH (vasopressin) secretion
Most common abnormal coronary arrangement in TGA
Anoamlous circ from the RCA (16% of patients) but most have normal coronaries
ANP effects on the kidney
- ANP is released in response to atrial stretch and leads to increased GFR
- Also decreases sodium resorption in the distal tubules
What causes shifting to the right in the hemoglobin/oxygen dissociation curve
- Acidosis
- Increased temperature
- Increased 2, 3 DPG
What is the systemic arterial response to decreased oxygen
- Systemic vasodilation due to attempts to get more oxygen delivery through increased flow
- Local vasodilation is also caused by increasing pCO2, increasing acidosis or increasing K
Least saturated blood in the fetus
Coronary sinus and SVC
The dominant resting conductance of the myocyte is dependent on which ion
Potassium
- Keeps the myocyte negatively polarized until an action potential arrives to activate the cell into phase 0
What happens in phase 0 of action potential
Rapid depolarization due to Na entry into the cell
What happens in phase 1 of action potential
Early repolarization with K efflux from the cell
What happens in phase 2 of action potential
Influx of calcium into the cell through L-type calcium channels (voltage dependent)
What happens in phase 3 of action potential
Repolarization phase and is dominated by K efflux from the cell
What happens in phase 4 of action potential
Return of the resting membrane potential and is maintained by Na/K ATPase channels
What is the role of fibroblasts in the heart
- Structural integrity, remodeling, development
- Deposition of extracellular matrix
- Involved in secretion of cytokines and growth factors
- Most common non-myocyte cardiac cell in the heart
What is the function of intercalated discs
- Connect cardiac myocytes end to end
- Transmit electrical impulses
- Made of desmosomes, adherens junctions, gap junctions
What is the process of calcium uptake during relaxation phase
80% done by Ca-ATPase SERCA pumps on the sarcoplasmic reticulum
Fetal hemoglobin subunits and relative oxygen affinity compared to adult
- Fetal is alpha and gamma
- Adult is alpha and beta
- Fetal has higher affinity for oxygen and becomes adult by about 3 months of age
How does norepinephrine activate B1 adrenergic receptors
- Activates the Gs subunit of the G protein complex which activates adenylate cyclase to convert ATP to cAMP and activates protein kinase A
- PKA phosphorylates multiple proteins involved in muscle contraction and action potentials of the heart
Functions of troponin C
Binds to calcium and allows tropomyosin to change positions to allow actin and myosin to bind and lead to muscle cell contraction
Baroreceptors location and response to arterial stretch
- Carotid sinus and aortic arch
- Send impulses to brain and decrease BP by decreasing HR and causing vasodilation