CV System and Disorders- Week 4 Set 2 Flashcards
Negative feedback systems incorporating pressure sensors that sense the arterial pressure
Baroceptors
The most important arterial baroreceptors
carotid sinus and in the aortic arch
Mechanism of Baroceptors
- stretching of the arterial wall (d/t increase pressure) 2. walls expand
- increases firing of AP generated by the receptors.
- If pressure decreased stretch of walls leads to a decrease in AP firing
Sensors that detect changes in CO2, O2, and pH
Chemoreceptors
What types of Chemoreceptors are there?
arterial and central
Chemoreceptors that monitor changes in partial pressure of O2 and CO2
Arterial
Principal peripheral chemoreceptors
Carotid bodies
Carotid bodies detect changes in arterial blood oxygen levels, and the resulting chemoreflex is…
regulation of blood pressure.
What happens to chemoreceptors exposed to chronic hypoxia or increased CO2?
They can be desensitized
When there is no identifiable cause of high blood pressure.
Primary (essential) hypertension
High blood pressure caused by an underlying condition
Secondary hypertension
Characteristics of secondary hypertension
Tends to appear suddenly and cause higher BP than primary
Characteristics of primary hypertension
Tends to develop gradually over many years.
Pulse pressure
difference between the systolic and diastolic blood pressures
average pressure in a patient’s arteries during one cardiac cycle
Mean Arterial Pressure
Is systolic BP or MAP considered a better indicator of perfusion to vital organs?
MAP
How is MAP measured
directly by invasive monitoring
Physiological factors that influence your BP
- Cardiac output
2. Peripheral vascular resistance
Physical factors that influence your BP
- Blood volume
2. Elastic property of blood vessels
Does a loss of water volume cause BP to increase or decrease?
Decrease
How does the body react to decrease in BP (or decrease in osmolarity)?
Reacts with different homeostatic mechanisms to try to
increase water volume back to normal levels , restore BP & ensure adequate circulation
The measure of how strongly blood pushes against the walls of arteries,
Blood pressure
What is a string indicator for blood pressure
blood volume, which is related to water volume
If BP gets too low because of inadequate volume what happens?
Vital nutrients won’t get delivered where needed & waste won’t be taken away.
baroreceptors that monitor BP & flow in kidney
Juxtaglomerular Apparatus
If decreased, JGA produces & releases what hormone
Renin
When Renin is released by the JGA what happens?
- Activates RAAS
- vasoconstriction
- increased Na+ & water resorption in kidneys
- restored water volume
Measure of how many osmotically active solute particles there are in a unit volume of water
Osmolarity