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Arteries vs. Veins

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Arteries carry blood under high pressure away from the heart, while veins return the blood to the heart after its pressure has been reduced in the capillaries. Arteries differ from veins in that they have a thicker, more flexible wall designed to handle the high pressure, while veins have a thinner wall and larger lumen to accommodate a greater volume of slower moving blood. Both have three layered walls. The inner layer, or endothelium, of both is a layer of smooth cells that minimizes friction on the flowing blood, but in arteries it is often folded like an accordion during diastole, allowing it to stretch during systole. The middle layer, which is made up of smooth muscle and elastic fibres, is much thicker in arteries, allowing it to expand as a pulse goes through and to contract afterwards, pushing the blood forward. The outer layer, which consists of both elastic and rigid connective tissues, provides protection against ballooning and rupture.

Veins have internal valves, which are lacking in arteries. These valves produce a one way flow when the veins are squeezed, allowing muscular action such as walking and breathing to pump blood toward the heart.

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Arteries (arterioles)

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A blood vessel that carries blood under high pressure away from the heart. It exerts pressure with its thick walls so high pressure doesn’t burst the walls. Pressure is the force caused when a molecule hits a wall, the # times it hits a wall is proportional to pressure/force.

Arteries branch so that they can send blood to different parts of the body.

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Arteriole

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The smallest artery, that gives rise to capillaries

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Capillary

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A tiny blood vessel consisting of only one layer of epithelial cells, where exchange of materials occurs. It is the thinnest structure that carries blood cells . The size of vessel gets smaller as it branches. It is very low in pressure, and allows efficient exchange by diffusion.

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Capillary bed

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An anastomosing network of capillaries that supplies a particular tissue

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Venule

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The smallest vein, collecting blood from capillaries

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Vein

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Any blood vessel that carries low-pressure blood back toward the heart. It is looser to expand more and stores great quantities of blood.

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History

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Hippocrates was the first physician to view the body as a whole. This dates back to the Greeks and Romans: Hippocrates and Galen. They had similar views on what the circulatory was. At the time they believed the body contained fluids known as humorous, there were 4 of them. If you had an imbalance of these fluids in your body, it meant you sick. This is how surgical techniques like blood letting were introduced. The Hippocratic oath is something all doctors take promising that if anyone is sick, they will treat them.

William Harvey is a doctor who first correctly described that blood circulated through the body. His conclusions were based on vivisection. Blood is circulated, not consumed by the body.

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Cardio

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Heart

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Vascular

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Vessels

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Vivisection

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learning exploratory surgeries on the living

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Disection

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Surgery done on the dead

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Systems in the Body

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Since the systems are subjected to natural selection over time and have evolved to gain their structure and function through NS and other agents of evolution, all of them solve a problem in the environment. There is a challenge in the environment that is posed that the systems we have in our bodies will address. This is related to what cells need from the environment.

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Cellular Respiration

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Cells need oxygen and glucose to produce energy.

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Unicellular organisms

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Do not have a circulatory system so they use diffusion

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Multicellular Organisms

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Diffusion is too slow to supply substances like glucose and oxygen to all of the cells in the deep layers of the skin. This is why we have different systems.

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Functions of the System

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  1. Transport
    * O2, CO2, hormones and wastes, nutrients moved around efficiently
  2. Regulation
    * helps control pH and body temperature (homeostasis)
  3. Protection
    * from blood loss through clotting, and against infection by pathogens
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Pathogens

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disease causing organisms (bacteria, fungi, virus)

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Homeostasis

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the ability to maintain a constant internal environment in response to environmental changes

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Main Components of the System

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  1. Pathway of transport -> Blood Vessels
  2. Pump to move medium along pathway -> Heart
  3. Medium/Substance that carries things -> Blood

Not all organisms have the exact 3 components, but everything needs a pathway, a medium of transport (like hemolymph), and a pump to move substance around a circuit.

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Direction of Blood

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Artery: away from heart

Vein: back to heart

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Lumen

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Artery: small

Vein: large

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Wall thickness

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Artery: thicker

Vein: thinner

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Valves and Muscles Around

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Artery: no valves or muscles

Vein: present

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Tunica Interna

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Artery: folds

Vein: no folds

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Tunica Intermedia

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Artery: thicker/more muscles

Vein: thinner/less muscle

Arteries need thicker muscle layers because high pressure would rip the thinner walls.

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Structure of Blood Vessels:

Tunica Externa

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Artery: thicker

Vein: thinner

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Epithelial Cells

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Specialized cells that surround tissue

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Tunica Interna

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The inner layer has flat, smooth, flat epithelial cells and is known as the endothelium on a thin layer of connective tissue. Has the lowest amount of friction and is quite strechy. Produces protein elastic collagen. In arteries, this layer is folded like an accordion so it can expand for pressure/

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Tunica Intermedia

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Surrounding layer of smooth muscle can stretch to accommodate passing blood, or contract to resist blood flow. Blood won’t travel as far with low pressure. Covered in connective tissue.

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Tunica Externa

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This is a layer of connective tissue produced by elastic and rigid collagen proteins. This has a stretch limit. The tough layer will prevent walls from ballooning when pressure is high.

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Varicose veins

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abnormal valve during atrial contraction

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Open circulatory system

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  • most common in invertebrates
  • haemolymph is the transport medium (from open-ended vessels to cavities)
  • transports nutrients by diffusing in cells
  • gases are not transported

Insects and crustaceans have an open circulatory system, in which the blood (technically called haemolymph) leaves the blood vessels and surrounds the tissues. They lack a venous system. They lack a lung or gill, and distribute gases by a series of tubes

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Tracheal System

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system of tubes that carry air for each cell of the body, the circulatory system is not responsible for transporting gases

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a) Superior (anterior)
b) Inferior (posterior)
c) Dorsal (back)
d) Ventral (front)

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Closed circulatory system

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  • keeps everything inside of the veins
  • when you close vessels, you can control substances and you will have more efficiency because you control directions of fluid and send things to certain places
  • you can generate pressure so the system doesn’t need to work as hard

more loops=more oxygen=more efficient

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One loop and two loop systems

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Fish and their relatives have a heart that is a single pump, and their blood flows through first the gills and then the body systems. This “single loop system” is efficient, except that the movement of blood through the gill capillaries slows it down and reduces blood pressure to the other organs. Blood pressure is required for rapid delivery of resources.

The higher vertebrates (mammals, birds, crocodiles, probably dinosaurs) have a “double loop system” in which the heart consists of two parallel pumps. One pump sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs, and returns it to the other pump, which sends it to the body systems. Thus, every system gets high pressure, oxygenated blood

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The heart of a mammal has ______ chambers. The chambers that produce the main pumping action of the heart are called __________.

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The heart of a mammal has ____4__ chambers. The chambers that produce the main pumping action of the heart are called _____ventricles_____.

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A membrane sac called the __________ surrounds the heart.

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A membrane sac called the _____pericardium_____ surrounds the heart.

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The main artery leaving the left side of the heart is called the _____. The first branches from it are the coronary arteries, which supply blood to the __________.

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The main artery leaving the left side of the heart is called the ___aorta__. The first branches from it are the coronary arteries, which supply blood to the ______heart muscle (myocardium)____.

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How does a heart valve work? How do the chordae tendineae contribute to this function?

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Valves are one-way gates that open if there is pressure on one side and close if there is pressure on the other side. They typically consist of two or more flaps of tissue.

The chordae tendineae are tough bands of connective tissue that attach the AV valves (tricuspid and bicuspid) to the opposite wall of the ventricle. They help to pull the AV valves open when the ventricle relaxes, but their main function is to support the AV valves during ventricular systole (contractions) so they don’t get blown inside out.

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The Heart

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The heart is mostly muscle and the pump part of the circulatory system. It moves blood by contracting. Its longest length is when its relaxed and when it contracts it gets shorter. When it contracts the volume inside lowers so that pressure is higher so blood can be pumped around. The function of the heart is to pump blood.

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Coronary

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takes blood to all the muscles of the heart

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Types of muscles

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cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, smooth muscle

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cardium

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heart muscles

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inner layer of heart

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endocardium

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middle layer of heart

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myocardium

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outer layer of heart

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Pericardium. There are two layers to the pericardium because the fluid helps protect and prevent friction as the heart moves and the sac surrounds it.

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Atria

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the receiving chamber

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pericarditis

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swelling of the heart

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Pulmonary circuit

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It goes from the right side of the heart carrying oxygen-poor blood up towards the lungs and returns back to the heart with oxygen-rich.

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pulmonary

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lungs

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Systemic circuit

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It gets pumped through the whole body. It carries blood away from your heart, delivers it to most of your organs and tissues, and returns it to your heart again. Blood returns to the body in veins, the vena cava.

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Largest vein in the body

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vena cava

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The right side of the heart pumps __________ blood.

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The right side of the heart pumps oxygen-poor blood.

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The left side of the heart pumps __________ blood.

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The left side of the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood.

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Chordae Tendineae

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Attaches to muscles to help vavlves stay in place when force of blood is strong.

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Why is a cardiac muscle cell contractile?

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It is contractile because there is a presence of two motor proteins called actin and myosin. The proteins pull each other together.

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How a muscle is polarized

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It happens when the inside fo the cell is more -ve than the outside. This is how signalling is controlled. Because they need to tell the cells to contract, otherwise the heart won’t coordinate contractions and blood will not be pushed through the heart.

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Depolarization

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Th atria/ventricles contract in direction of blood flow. The polarized membrane is a way the muscle acts for signalizing. The presence of a high concentration of Ca2+ ions is what makes the outside +ve. Ca is too polar to get through the lipid layer of the membrane. The protein channels on the membrane (now selectively permeable) open up and let calcium in. This is called depolarization, as the charge is reversed.

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How does a cardiac muscle get its signals?

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They are the only cells in the body that are self-excitable. They can spontaneously open calcium channels. This is a unique feature as it does not actually need communication from the nervous system to tell the doors to open. If the brain and the heart are not communicating, the heart will function as long as nutrients are supplied. There are 2 ways a cardiac muscle cell gets signals. If the doors haven’t opened in a certain amount of time they will open up, or it can actually open doors if it gets signaling from neighboring cells. There are intercalated discs between cells that create a wave of contractions. It signals through the branch evenly in all directions. A cardiac muscle cell will be able to contract every 1.5s unless a signal is received to do so sooner.

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Cardiac muscle cells are…

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contractile, self-excitable, autorhythmic, and non-
fatiguing

It does not get tired because of an abundance of myoglobin that binds oxygen. O2 is needed for cellular respiration for energy. The heart is also the first stop on the systemic circuit.

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What is the sequence of events (filling, contraction, valve movement) that occurs during a single beat of the heart?

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Atria fill – AV valves open – atria contract – ventricles fill – AV valves close as ventricles contract – semilunar valves open as ventricles contract – semilunar valves close as ventricle begins to relax.

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The phase of the heartbeat when the ventricles relax and fill with blood is called ventricular _______. During this phase, blood pressure in the arteries is _______________ (higher/lower). The phase when the ventricles contract is called ___________.

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The phase of the heartbeat when the ventricles relax and fill with blood is called ventricular ____diastole___. During this phase, blood pressure in the arteries is ________high_______ (higher/lower).

The phase when the ventricles contract is called _______systole____.

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What is the pacemaker, and how does it function?

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The SA pacemaker is a cluster of cardiac cells that discharges spontaneously at about 60-70 times per minute. It initiates the contraction of the muscles in the atria, starting a wave that spreads over the entire heart muscle. In this way, it controls the heart rate. The pacemaker can be adjusted by signals from nerves that originate in the brain. One set of nerves releases epinephrine (adrenalin) and speeds up the pace maker. The other releases acetylcholine and slows down the pacemaker.

The AV node acts as a secondary pacemaker. It will cause the ventricles to beat at about 40 beats per minute, even if the SA node fails.

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Describe the sequence of events that makes up a mammalian heart beat

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  1. Atria contracts to help push blood into ventricles because for the heart to pump efficiently you want to pump as much blood around the body with the fewest amount of contractions to conserve energy
  2. Ventricles contract bottom up
  3. Depolarization/ relaxation phase where both sets of muscles have stopped contracting and refill with blood
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LUBDUB sound

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LUB (first heart sound louder): AV valves (tricuspid and bicuspid valves) snap shut avoiding back flow

DUB (second heart sound weaker): semilunar valves (aortic valve and pulmonary valve) snap shut avoiding
back flow

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systole

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contraction

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diastole

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relaxation

70
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Who invented first stethoscope

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Rene Laennec

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Who invented first ECG

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Willem Einthoven

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SA node

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Sino atrial node is a natural pacemaker (one signal every 0.8 sec), starts in right atrium

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AV nod

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Atrio ventricular nod, secondary pacemaker, in some situations, starts in septum

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Relate the traces of the ECG to the events in the heart

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P wave:

  • SA node signaling
  • Atria cells - depolarization
  • Interval before the next wave (AV node delays 

its signal)

QRS wave (or QRS complex):

  • AV node signaling (Q)
  • Ventricular cells: depolarization (R-S)

T wave:

Repolarization of ventricles (refilling with blood)

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Vasodilation

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the dilatation of blood vessels, which decreases blood pressure

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Vasoconstriction

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the constriction of blood vessels, which increases blood pressure.

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The major systemic artery rises from the ________ ventricle and is called the ________. The major veins of the systemic system are called the _______________.

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The major systemic artery rises from the ____left____ ventricle and is called the ____aorta____. The major veins of the systemic system are called the _______vena cava______.

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Arteries of the systemic circulatory system carry _____________ blood.

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Arteries of the systemic circulatory system carry _________oxygenated____ blood.

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A branch at the very beginning of the aorta diverts blood from the systemic circulatory system to __________ circulation, which supplies the heart muscle.

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A branch at the very beginning of the aorta diverts blood from the systemic circulatory system to ______coronary____ circulation, which supplies the heart muscle.

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Blood Presssure

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The amount of force applied to a given area of a blood vessel wall as the blood flows past it.

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How is blood pressure measured, and what fo the measurements mean?

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A sphygmomanometer measures the systolic and diastolic force acting on the wall of an artery, such as the brachial artery.

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Arteries

Accessory structures:

Function:

Blood pressure (high or low, decreasing rapidly):

Source of pumping action:

Oxygenation (high or low):

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Arteries

Accessory structures: none

Function: carry high pressure blood away from heart

Blood pressure: high and pulsing

Source of pumping action: heart

Oxygenation: high

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Capillaries

Accessory structures:

Function:

Blood pressure (high or low, decreasing rapidly):

Source of pumping action:

Oxygenation (high or low):

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Capillaries

Accessory structures: precapillary sphincters & arterio-venous shunt

Function: pick up and delivery of resources and wastes

Blood pressure: dropping, no pulse

Source of pumping action: heart

Oxygenation: declining

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Veins

Accessory structures:

Function:

Blood pressure (high or low, decreasing rapidly):

Source of pumping action:

Oxygenation (high or low):

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Capillaries

Accessory structures: valves to direct flow of blood

Function: carry low-pressure blood back to heart

Blood pressure: low, no pulse

Source of pumping action: surrounding muscles

Oxygenation (high or low): low

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How blood is moved back to the heart in the veins

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Skeletal muscles squeeze on the veins, generating pressure. The one-way valves in the veins prevent the blood from moving backwards, while the muscular pressure pushes the blood towards the heart. The most important movements in keeping the blood moving toward the heart are the movements of breathing, which change the pressure on the posterior vena cava and pump blood uphill from the lower body. (Of course, blood from the upper body can use gravity as well to flow back to the heart.)

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Functions of a Cardio-Vascular System

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  1. Transport - transports oxygen and carbon dioxide, nutrients, hormones, and wastes
  2. Regulation - blood helps regulate pH, body temperature
  3. Protection - protects against blood loss through clotting and foreign pathogens
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What is blood made of?

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55% plasma, 44% blood, 1% wbc+ platelets

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What is Plasma Made of

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Water makes up 90% of plasma. The function of it is that you need volume when the heart is pumping so we can generate pressure. It’s a very good solvent and polar so it can transport a lot.

Plasma proteins make up 7%. These molecules have a lot of functions. Albumin helps maintain blood volume by maintaining a concentration by creating osmotic gradients to suck water back in. Antibodies produced by WBC and fight infections. Fibrinogen helps clotting. PP are found in plasma so it has access to whole body.

Majority of things transported is found in plasma. The function of salts is to maintain BP and muscle contraction. It also makes sure that not too much osmosis happens. Gases for cellular respiration. Nutrients as energy sources. Nitrogen wastes through kidneys.

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Red Blood Cells

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Erythrocytes: Transport O2 and help transport CO2

Since they are small they are more efficient of diffusing oxygen in, SA/V

Bends and twists to get through capillary, flexible

Has a protein called hemoglobin that is very strong to bind O2.

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White blood cells

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Leukocytes: fight infections

Granular- basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils

Agranular- lymphocytes, monocytes

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Neutrophils

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Most abundant, Fight infections, are a neutral colour when stain, phagocytize (eat) pathogens

Neutrophil will change shape of cell to get pathogen into the membrane, cell will then digest it and remove the waste. Dies once it phagocytizes. (Flattens itself, squeezes through capillaries and cells to reach the layer of skin to fight bacteria)

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Eosinophils

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Phagocytize parasitic worms, proteins (antigen-antibody complex) and allergens, pick up red stain

Sometimes the proteins they respond to are not harmful, allergens (allergies).

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Basophils

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Least abundant, Related to allergic reactions, blue

Release chemical substance called histamine. Creates more blood flow and swelling response to infection.

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Monocyte

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Put a small protein on the surface of the cell that a particular bacteria is in the body, helper of a lymphocyte

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Lymphocyte

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More will be kept around if a specific pathogen comes, these cells require a lot of energy so that is why we don’t keep them in abundance. We are only immune to pathogens in our environment, we have the ability to detect a certain bacteria or virus.

Produce antibodies.

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Platelet

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Used to be in a megakaryocyte, each thrombocyte is filled with a protein called thromboplastin/ prothrombin activator as it activates clotting mechanisms

Clot blood to prevent blood from leaking out of your body

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Granular cells that phagocytize foreign cells in the blood are called_____.

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Granular cells that phagocytize foreign cells in the blood are called___neutrophils__.

98
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Cells that migrate outside the blood and ingest foreign cells are called _______ and ______.

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Cells that migrate outside the blood and ingest foreign cells are called ____monocytes___ and ___macrophages___.

99
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Cells that induce allergic responses are _________ and _____________.

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Cells that induce allergic responses are _____eosinophils____ and ______basophils_______.

100
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WBC’s that produce antibodies to fight disease organisms are called ____________.

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WBC’s that produce antibodies to fight disease organisms are called _______lymphocytes_____.

101
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Steps in Blood Clotting

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  1. Puncture of the vessel
  2. This is a cascade reaction because there are a lot of steps and very fast. You get more control over the body having multiple steps. Each step can be controlled or switched off. You are using enzymes again and again so you do not need to create new molecules each time. Blood leaks out of wound but when platelets get exposed to air their chemistry changes and their membranes become sticky and stick to each other and walls of the vessel. This helps reduce blood flow. Releases prothrombin activator. This causes the fibrinogen to become the fiber threads. The fibers form over the cut and act as net until it dries out and forms a solid mass called a scab. It is a barrier so nothing can go in or out and cause an infection. You are also not losing any more blood.
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The lymphatic System

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The lymphatic system is an network of
vessels and nodes that collects lymph from the
spaces between the cells and empties it into the venous circulation just before it enters the heart. It has vessels that connects with the subclavian vein so that it can put the fluid back into the blood. The lymph nodes play another role in protecting the body against infection are important sites of lymphocyte formation.

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Lymphatic: What is in the plasma?

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water

rbc’s

wbc’s

proteins

nutrients

salts

oxygen

104
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Lymphatic: What is in the tissue fluid?

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water

some wbc’s

nutrients

salts

oxygen

wastes

105
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Lymphatic: What is in the lymph duct?

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water

wbc’s

wastes

salts

106
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How does water potential differ at the beginning and end of a capillary?

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The blood in the capillaries is hypertonic to the tissue fluid because plasma proteins remain in the blood as solutes, so there is always osmotic pressure pulling water into the capillary. Blood pressure is high at the beginning of the capillary pushing fluids out of the blood but drops by the end. Fluid leaves the capillary at the beginning but is drawn in at the end.

107
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What is the main purpose of the lymphatic system?

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To recover fluids lost from the blood

108
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Lymph passes through small swellings in the lymphatic system, called _____________. These contain large numbers of _____________ that defend against disease-causing organisms that have made it into the body.

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Lymph passes through small swellings in the lymphatic system, called _______lymph nodes______. These contain large numbers of _______lymphocytes (WBC’s)______ that defend against disease-causing organisms that have made it into the body.

Biology 11 (4 decks)

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