Flashcards for Summaries
What is Homeostasis?
A dynamic process where we adapt and adjust to maintain equilibrium in the bodies internal environment
What are the components of a feedback system? (5)
Set point, Sensor, Control centre, effector and the regulated variable
What does a large gain imply?
There is a more sensitive regulation to better maintain normal conditions
What is ‘gain’ of regulated variable and what is it’s equation?
The gain of a variable is the precision by which a control system can prevent deviation from homeostasis.
Gain =
Amount of correction needed/Amount of abnormality after correction
What is a reflex response?
Knowledge from an integrating centre and a circuitry that connects the
receptor and the effector.
What is a local response?
Local homeostatic controls are highly significant because they allow individual parts of the body to self regulate their responses to certain conditions.
What are the 5 intracellular communications?
1) Hormone secreting gland > hormone > blood vessel >target cell
2) Nerve cell > Nerve impulse > Neurotransmitter > neuron/effector cell
3) Nerve cell > Nerve impulse > Hormone > Blood vessel > Target cell
4) Local cell > paracrine agent > target cell
5) Local cell > Autocrine agent > back to local cell
What are the bodies two main systems?
Endocrine and Nervous systems
What are Hormones?
Hormones are chemical messengers carried by the blood to target cells to cause a response
What are the 4 main functions of Hormones?
1) Hormones help regulate chemicals, metabolism, immune system, cardiac muscle fibres and glandular secretion
2) Control growth and development
3) Regulate operation of reproductive system
4) Help establish circadian rhythm
What are the 3 main structures of Hormones?
Amines, Peptides/Proteins and Steroids
How do Peptide hormones travel, compared to Amine and Steroids?
Peptides are water soluble therefore circulate dissolved in plasma whereas the others circulate bound to proteins
What is mainly responsible for removing hormones ?
The Liver and Kidney
What affects responsiveness of target cells to Hormones?
1) Hormones blood conc
2) Amount of target cells and/or receptors
3) Effects of other hormones
What 6 things does the anterior pituitary gland secrete?
Growth Hormone (GH)
Thyroid stimulation hormone (TSH)
Adrenocorticotropic (ACTH)
Prolactin
Follicle Stimulating hormone (FSH)
Luteinizing hormone (LH)
What does the posterior pituitary gland secretes ?
Oxytocin
Vasopressin
Thyroid hormones function?
protein synthesis in follicular epithelial cells
increases DNA replication and cell division
produces thyroxine (called T4) and triiodothyronine (T3-major thyroid hormone)
What are the physiological functions of cortisol? (Non stressful) (3)
Maintains a normal BP by affecting the responsiveness of smooth muscle cells to epinephrine and norepinephrine
Maintain enzymes conc required for metabolic homeostasis, preventing decreasing plasma glucose levels
Has anti-inflammatory and anti-immune functions
What are the physiological functions of cortisol? (Stressful)
- Effects on metabolism
- Enhanced vascular reactivity, improving cardiovascular performance
- Unidentified protective effects against the damaging influences of stress
- Inhibition of inflammation and specific immune responses Inhibition of nonessential functions (e.g reproduction & growth)
What is anterior pituitary gland secretion controlled by and what is the typical sequence of it?
It is controlled by Hypophysiotropic hormones from the hypothalamus via portal vessels
Hypophysiotropic hormones controls the secretion of APG hormone which then controls secretion of a 3rd hormone from an endocrine gland
What is the hormone process?
Hormones are synthesized in the hypothalamus
axons pass down the infundibulum
terminate in the posterior pituitary and release hormones
Sequence of hormone release?
Hypophysiotropic
hormone (hormone 1 from the hypothalamus)
controls the secretion of an anterior pituitary
gland hormone (hormone 2), which controls the secretion of a hormone by a third endocrine gland (hormone 3)
Function of Growth hormone?
Major stimulus of postnatal growth.
It stimulates the release of IGF-1 to stimulate cell
division.
Stimulates protein synthesis.
Where is testosterone found in males and females?
Males - Testes
Females - Ovaries, adrenal cortex and androgens
Function of testosterone?
muscle growth & development of male sex characteristics
Where is Estrogen and Progesterone found in males and females?
Females - Ovaries
Males - small tissue in the liver, kidney, bone, skin, brain, breasts and adrenal glands
Functions of Oestrogen and Progesterone?
Development of female sex characteristics
Regulates menstrual cycle and adipose tissue growth
Promotes endothelia function
What 4 things are muscles composed of?
- Muscle fibres (cells)
- Vascular cells
- Fibroblasts
- Satellite cells
What is the process of a cross bridge mechanism?
- Calcium ions released into muscle sarcoplasm
- Binding to troponin causing tropomyosin to change and move away from the binding site
- Myosin head extend and binds forming a cross bridge
- ATP binds to the head detaching
- ATP is then hydrolysed and the energy is used to re-attach the head in another binding site
What are the 3 energy systems? And how do they arise?
Creative Phosphate - Provides energy fast forming ATP from ADP + P, only lasts 1-2 secs
Glycolysis - Energy from glucose in the absence of o2
Oxidative Phosphorylation - Energy from glucose or fat with o2 preset
What is Excitation-Contraction Coupling for relaxed muscle?
There are low calcium ions, therefore cross bridges cannot form as tropomyosin is covering the binding site
Sliding filament process?
- Calcium ions released into muscle sarcoplasm
- Binding to troponin causing tropomyosin to change and move away from the binding site
- Myosin head extend and binds forming a cross bridge
- ATP binds to the head detaching
- ATP is then hydrolysed and the energy is used to re-attach the head in another binding site
Neuromuscular junction process?
- Action potential arrives opening Ca2+ channels
- Fuses vesicles with membrane releasing acetylcholine into synaptic cleft
- Ach diffuses across binding to specific receptors on MEP
- This opens ion channels allowing sodium ions in, resulting in depolarisation
- Once threshold is reached another action potential occurs
- Continues doing power strokes until muscle stimulation stops
Excitation-Contraction Coupling for an active muscle?
High Calcium, Calcium binds to troponin causing tropomyosin to move away from the binding site allowing actin to bind
What are the 3 muscle fibre types?
Type IIx
Type IIa
Type I
What is a motor unit?
A motor neuron and all the fibres it stimulates
What are the 5 mechanisms involved in muscle fatigue?
- Conduction failure
- Lactic acid build up
- Inhibition of Cross-bridge cycling
- Fuel substrates
- Central command fatigue
What is Hypertrophy?
Increase in muscle fibre size due to addition of contractile proteins, protein synthesis > breakdown
What is hyperplasia?
Increase number of muscle fibres
How do neural/structural adaptations lead to increased strength?
Increase motor unit recruitment, firing rate and increase muscle mass
What does hypertrophy depend on?(3)
Initial strength
Duration of training
Training technique
Resistance training components?(9)
1- Time-under-tension
2- Intensity
3- Sets
4- Repetitions
(3-4 = volume)
5- Velocity
6- Exercise order
7- Recovery between sets
8- Frequency
9- Exercise type
What are the 4 main functions of the CV system?
- Transport o2, nutrients, and metabolites to tissue
- Remove waste
- Distribute and secrete hormones
- Involvement in Homeostatic mechanisms
Equation for resistance?
1/r^4 = Poiseuille’s law
Equation for flow?
Pressure difference / Resistance = Darcy’s law
How is flow created and what is this called?
Pressure difference between two points = Driving pressure