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What 2 crucial functions does the right side of the heart have?

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Receives blood from the body

Pumps blood to lungs

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What 2 crucial functions does the left side of the heart have?

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Receives O2 blood from lungs

Pumps blood into aorta for distribution through body in systemic circulation

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What % of blood returning to the atria flows directly into the ventricles before the atria contract?

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~70%

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What is it called when there’s a brief interval of rising ventricular tension when the valves remain closed for 0.02 to 0.06s when the heart vol + muscle fibre length remain unchanged?

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Isovolumetric contraction period

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What is a vessel/tubes resistance inversely proportional to?

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The 4th power of its radius

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What in the arterioles controls bf to the capillary beds?

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Smooth muscle

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Calculation for blood pressure

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CO x total peripheral resistance

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What vessels can be found between the arterioles + the capillaries?

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Metarterioles

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What happens in phlebitis

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Venous wall of varicose veins becomes inflamed + deteriorates.

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What can hypertension do when left untreated?

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Damages arterial vessels

Leading to arteriosclerosis, heart disease, stroke + kidney failure

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Does the bp response to PA vary with the activity mode?

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YES

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Where do the right + left coronary arteries emerge from?

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Upper part of the ascending aorta.

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What % of the O2 in the blood in the coronary vessels does the myocardium require?

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~70%

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Why does the myocardium depend on adequate O2 supply?

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Unlike skeletal muscle, it has limited anaerobic energy generating capacity

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What are the chest pains called caused by impaired coronary bf?

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Angina pectoris

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What estimates myocardial workload?

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The rate-pressure product

^^ calculated by: HR x systolic bp

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What provides energy to maintain myocardial function?

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Metabolism of:

Glucose
FAs
Lactate

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What does the % myocardial use of macronutrients for energy vary with?

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Intensity + duration of PA

Ind training status

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What factors regulate HR + the internal diameter of bv?

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Neurochemical factors

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Order of the transmission of the cardiac impulse

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SAN

Atria

AVN

AV bundle (a.k.a bundle of His)

Purkinje fibres

Ventricles

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What type of an electrical charge do the outer surface of myocardial cells have?

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More +ive than the inside.

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What happens upon stimulation prior to contraction of the myocardial cells in relation to the charge of the outside + inside of their cells?

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Polarity reverses:

Inside becomes more +ive than its outside.

Then in diastole = Membrane depolarise. to reestablish normal resting membrane pot.

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Input from the brain + peripheral NS continually bombards the cardiovascular control centre where?

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In the ventrolateral medulla

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What does the cardiovascular control centre in the ventrolateral medulla do?

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Regulates hearts blood output

+

bloods preferential distribution to tissues.

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What does stimulation of the sympathetic cardioaccelerator nerves release?
Epinephrine + norepinephrine (catecholamines)
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What do the neurohormones catecholamines do in the sympathetic influence of extrinsic regulation of the HR + circulation ?
Accerelerate SAN depolarisation = ⬆️ HR = Chronotopic effect + ⬆️ myocardial contractility = inotropic effect
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Neural regulation of the CV system during PA Activation pre-exercise "anticipatory" response
Motor cortex activates central command part of brain = ⬆️ Sympathetic outflow + inhibits parasympathetic activity
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Neural regulation of the CV system during PA Activation during exercise
Sympathetic stimulation from: - Arterial baroreflexes - Cardiopulmonary reflexes - Exercise pressor reflex Then continues sympathetic adrenergic outflow w/ epinephrine + norepinephrine from the adrenal medulla
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Where does the arterial baroreflex come from?
Aortic + carotid arterial mechanoreceptors
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Where does the cardiopulmonary reflex come from?
Cardiac mechanoreceptors
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Where does the exercise pressor reflex come from?
Skeletal muscle ergoreceptors
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What continually modulates medullary activity?
Impulses originating in the brains higher somatomotor central command centre.
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What provides the greatest control over exercise HR?
Central command centre
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Where do parasympathetic nerve endings concentrate?
Atria SAN AVN
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Where do the sympathetic fibres supply to?
SAN AVN Muscle of atria + ventricles
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Where does the cardiovascular centre receive reflex sensory input (feedback) from?
Peripheral receptors in bv, joints + muscles.
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What does the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the eye?
Dilates the pupil
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What does the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the lungs?
Relaxes airways
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What does the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the heart?
Accelerates heart beat
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What does the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the liver?
Stimulates glucose prod + release
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What does the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the stomach?
Inhibits digestion
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What does the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the adrenal gland?
Stimulates secretion of epinephrine + norepinephrine
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What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the eye?
Constricts pupil
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What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the lungs ?
Constricts airways
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What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the heart?
Slows heart beat
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What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the stomach?
Stimulates digestion
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What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the pancreas?
Stimulates release of insulin + digestive enzymes
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What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do to the small intestine ?
Dilates bv in gut
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When does the neural command centre above the medullary region initiate CV changes?
Immediately before + at movement onset.
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What does exercise anticipation from higher centres in the brain activate?
Sympathetic neurons in the hypothalamus
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What do efferent sympathetic fibres do to the heart?
⬆️ HR ⬆️ myocardial contractility Dilate coronary arteries
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What causes the adrenal medulla to release epinephrine?
Sympathetic nervous stimulation
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What does the epinephrine released from the adrenal medulla do?
Accelerates SAN discharge Dilates coronary vessels ⬆️ myocardial metabolism
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What fibres slow HR + conduction velocity using Acetylcholine at the SAN + AVN
Vagus nerve fibres
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What are the 3 common methods of measurement to assess the CO of a closed circulatory system in humans?
Direct fick Indicator dilution CO2 rebreathing
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What 3 physiological mechanisms increase SV during PA?
1. Enhanced cardiac filling in diastole, then a more formal systolic contraction. 2. Neurohormonal influence involving normal ventricular filling w/ a forceful ejection + emptying during systole 3. Training adaptations
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3 physiological mechanisms that increase SV during PA What comes under training adaptations?
⬆️ blood vol ⬇️ resistance = in peripheral tissues
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What does Frank-Starlings law of the heart (a.k.a Starlings law) state?
W/in physiological limits, the force of contraction is directly proportional to the initial length of the muscle fibre.

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