Medical Science Flashcards
What is the movement of fluid known as?
Convection
What is the movement of dissolved molecules known as?
Advection
What is the way blood flows after blood vessels split known as?
Portal systems
What is the initial layer of blood vessels?
Endothelial cells (endothelium) and a basement membrane called the Basal Lamina
What is the medial layer of a blood vessel?
SMC, fibrous proteins (collagen and elastin). Elastin allows stretching (organized in sheets on inside and outside), collagen provides mechanical strength
What is the adventitial layer of blood vessels?
Nervous cells to stimulate VSMC
What is the Law of Laplace
Tension = Pressure x Radius
What is the purpose of larger elastic artery’s?
Maintain constant BP by recoiling due to large elastic tissue. Smoothing pulse
Adaptation of smaller muscular arteries?
More VSMC to spasm to reduce blood loss if cut and control diameter
Arteriole function in blood flow?
Control flow of blood with thick SMC walls to control diameter
Diffusion equation for distance?
Time = (x^2) /2D
D = diffusion coefficient
Capillary function and adaptation
Only intimal layer (endothelial cells) for exchange
Purpose and adaptation of veins?
Capacitance vessel with thin stretchy walls to expand to store blood
What equation links airflow, resistance and pressure difference
Flow = delta P / R
What membrane surround the lungs and what is found inside this membrane?
Pleural membrane with inter pleural space contain inter pleural fluid (liquid)
How does pressure change in inspiration?
Diaphragm contracts and so do intercostal muscles. This tries to expand the intra pleural fluid (Volume can’t change) therefore pressure decreases (becomes more negative compared to atm) pulls on lungs increasing volume
How does expiration differ to inspiration process?
Inspiration in reverse and usually only passive process due to only relaxation of muscles
What is resting tidal volume?
Change in volume when normally breathing
What is expiratory/inspiratory reserve volume?
The extra volume capable of being breathed in/out
What is vital capacity?
The maximum amount of volume that can be breathed in and out
What is the resistance in airways to airflow and why is it this value?
Low resistance due to airways being short, wide and air having low viscosity
What is compliance equation?
Compliance = delta V / delta P
What is compliance?
The measure of how easily a container changes volume based on pressure
What determines complaince in lungs?
The surface tension of the liquid lining the surface of the lungs (75m^2)
What is purpose of type 2 cells in lungs?
Secrete detergent (surfactant) to lower liquid tension of the liquid lining the lungs
What issue can arise in early birthed baby’s related to surfactant?
Baby’s don’t secrete detergent so can be born with respiratory-distress
What is the minute ventilation equation?
Tidal volume (500ml/breath) x Resp rate (10 br/m) = minute ventilation (5L/min)
What is deadspace in airways?
Volume of airways not involved in gas exchange (150ml in human)
What do coronary artery’s do?
Bring blood to the muscles of the heart
What blood vessels lead to left atria?
Pulmonary veins (2 from each lung)
What blood vessels bring blood back to right atria?
Vena cava (superior and inferior)
What blood vessels leaves right ventricle?
The pulmonary artery, it then splits into 2
What blood vessel leaves left ventricle?
Aorta
What are the AV valves called ?
A-V valves: left is a bicuspid (mitral)
Right is a tricuspid
What valves are located in the aorta and pulmonary artery and what’s their purpose?
Aortic valve
Pulmonary valve
To prevent back flow after ventricular relaxation
How are AV valves stopped from being pushed the wrong way when ventricles contract?
Cardiac Muscle extensions called chordae tendinae
What is the fibrotendinous ring?
Non conductive material can that includes the tricuspid and bicuspid (mitral) valves
What are the stages of cardiac cycle?
- Mid diastole
- Atrial contraction
- Isovolumetric ventricular contraction
- Ventricular ejection
- Isovolumetric ventricular relaxation
How is the cardiac cycle split time wise and what are they?
Takes approx 1 sec.
Systole contraction of ventricles (1/3 of cycle)
Diastole relaxation (2/3 of cycle)
What is Mid diastole?
Aortic valve closed (PAorta > Pv), mitral valve open (Pa > Pv), blood flows from atria to ventricle, ventricular pressure increase slightly due to blood flow.
What happens in atrial contraction?
Blood forced out of atria into ventricles, slamming mitral valve shut (1st heart sound)
What happens in Isovolumetric ventricular contraction?
No valves open (mitral or aortic) but ventricles contract leading to rapid Pressure increase opening aortic valve
No volume change
What happens in ventricular ejection?
Pressure rises slightly but then begins to decrease, volume also decreases as blood leaves into aorta. The P drop leads to closing of aortic valve
What happens in Isovolumetric ventricular relaxation?
No valves are open but blood flows into atrium from pulmonary vein. When Pa > Pv mitral valve opens and ventricle volume increases
How to calculate stroke volume?
SV = EDV - ESV
EDV is end diastolic volume
ESV is end systolic volume
SV is therefore amount pumped per beat
What is the respiratory quotient?
CO2 out / O2 in — at the cells
Importance of partial pressure in respiration?
Pp drives diffusion and is responsable for conc of gas dissolved in liquid
C = pp x Solubility
What is the makeup of oxygen in the air?
0.21 mole fraction
760 mmhg
How much oxygen per liter of arterial blood and how is it stored?
200 ml of O2
3ml dissolved in blood with pO2 of 100mmhg
Remaining 197ml associated with Haemoglobin in RBC (erythrocytes) each Hb can bind with 4 O2
What alters the saturation of Hb with oxygen and what way does the curve shift?
Factors include [H+], Temp and pCO2 as these increase oxygen dissociation curve shifts right and O2 is harder to bind.
What is pO2 in alveolar gas and respiring tissue and why is it important?
105mmhg roughly in gas so high Hb saturation so lots of O2 associated to Hb
40 mmhg at respiring tissues leading to O2 dissociating.
How much CO2 in venous blood (1L) and how is it stored?
520ml per L
1. Dissolved (~10%)
2. CO2 combines with amino groups in all proteins (30%)
3. As hydrogen carbonate ions (bicarbonate) (60%)
How are bicarbonate ions produced in blood?
CO2 reacts with water to produce carbonic acid (in equilibrium)
Carbonic acid dissociates into HCO3- and H+ ions
What is the Donan equilibrium?
When electrical gradient of diffusion is equal to concentration diffusion gradient so no net movement
What is the ratio of the Na/K pump and it’s resting potential?
3 Na for 2 K ions
Resting potential 80mv
What are the potentials if all of specific ion channels are open?
Na+ 51mv
Ca2+ 133mv
K+ -94mv
What is the threshold value ?
Voltage required for an action potential to be generated
What type of feedback occurs when Na+ channels open?
Positive