Chapter 19: Heart Flashcards
Sinoatrial Node
- specialized cardiac muscle cell
- does not control
- job=pacemaker cells
- exhibit autorhythmicity
How Action potential travels from SA Node through the heart:
- Initiated in Sinoatrial node
- Through gap junctions of cardiac atria
- Action potential is slowed down by the
Atrioventricular node - Bundle of HIS (AV bundle) & Purkinje fibers all
have a larger diameter than cardiac muscle
cells.*Action potential travels faster through the
fibers than cardiac muscle cells - Contraction of the ventricles start at the apex
of the heart
Pacemaker of the heart:
Sinoatrial Node
Autorhythmicity
Spontaneously depolarize & depolarize at regular intervels
Create a heart beat every .6 seconds =100 beats per minute
Vagal Tone
Slowing of heart rate
Normal resting heart rate is:
Constant signal through parasympathetic pathway to slow the heart
Resting Membrane Potential
*(Pumps/voltage gated channels)
Na/k pump, Na leak, k leak
1) slow voltage gated Na channels
* open slowly
* narrow channel (Na flows slowly)
2) fast voltage gated calcium channels
3) voltage gated k channel
EKG or ECG
Place electrodes on wrist, ankle, chest
Measures the electrical change in heart rate
P Wave (pulse)
Atrial Depolarization
QRS complex
Due to ventricular depolarization but also atrial repolarization
T Wave
Ventricular repolarization
PQ Segment
Atrial plateau
ST segment
Ventricular plateau
Cardiac cycle describes:
Order of events in turn of contraction, relaxation, valves opening/closing, & blood flow
Diastole
Relaxation
Systole
Contraction
Valves open when:
Pressure in preceding (prior) chamber or vessel is greater than pressure in proceeding hollowing chamber or vessel.
Pressure keeps valve open/closed