Cardiovascular System Part 2 W5 Flashcards
What makes up the heart wall?
Epicardium
Myocardium
Endocardium
What is myocardial infraction?
Blockage in coronary blood flow results in cell damage
Exercise training protects against heart damage during an myocardial infraction
What is the epicardium?
Serves as lubricative outer covering
What the myocardium?
Provides muscular contractions that eject blood from the heart chambers
What is the endocardium?
Serves as protective inner lining of the chambers and valves
What are the differences between heart muscle and skeletal muscle?
Heart:
- 1 nuclei
- Has cellular junctions (intercalated discs)
- Involuntary neural control
- No regeneration potential (no satellite cells)
Skeletal:
- Multiple nuclei
- No junctional complexes
- Voluntary neural control
- Some regeneration potential (via satellite cells
What does contraction of the heart depend on?
Electrical stimulation of the myocardium
What is the SA node?
Pacemaker initiating depolarization
What ae bundle branches?
Connect atria to left and right ventricle
What is the AV node?
Passes depolarisation to the ventricles
What are purkinje fibres?
Spread wave or depolarization throughout ventricles
What is the P wave (ECG)?
Atrial depolarisation
What is the QRS complex (ECG)?
Ventricular depolarization and atrial repolarization
What is the T wave (ECG)?
Ventricular repolarisation
What happens to intraventricular pressure as ventricles contract?
It rises
What does S-T segment depression suggest?
Myocardial ischemia
What is athleroscelrosis
Fatty plaque that narrows coronary arteries
What is myocardial ischemia?
Recues blood flow to myocardium
How much of total oxygen consumption does the maintenance of basal metabolism compromise?
10-20%
How does exercise reduce the amount of myocardial damage from heart attacks?
Improves the heart’s antioxidant capacity
Improves function of ATP-sensitive potassium channels
What does increased oxygen delivery rely on?
Increased coronary blood flow
What does chronotropic mean?
Heart rate increases
What does inotropic mean?
Contractility increases
What is the main metabolic vasodilator during coronary circulation?
Adenosine