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Transmembrane Potential
A resting cells em is negative or...,
Concentrations of k anionic prote...,
Nernst equation
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Action Potentials
Four types of excitable cells cel...,
Action potentials are produced by...,
Conductance g
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Effects of Altered Extracellular Ion Concentrations on Resting Membrane Potentials, Action Potentials, and Excitability
As the ratio of ion concentration...,
You substitute the new nernst val...,
How do changes in external na aff...
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Skeletal Muscle
The spiral arrangement of myosin ...,
Purpose of the two lobes of the m...,
Significance of the m line
28
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Smooth Muscle
Airway and blood vessel smooth mu...,
Difference in,
How to skeletal muscles contract ...
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Cardiac Excitation and Contraction I
Cardiac output vs stroke volume v...,
Erp,
Sa node
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The Normal ECG/EKG
A voltmeter registers the potenti...,
The ecg is generated by the vecto...,
The net direction of current flow
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Heart as a Pump
Preload,
Recall the relationship between p...,
Factors that increase preload
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Cardiac cycle
Events in a cardiac cycle,
Describe the valvular mechanism t...,
What are the five stages of valvu...
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Hemodynamics II
Arteries have a larger tunica ___...,
___ have valves to ensue unidirec...,
Aorta large arteries serve to ass...
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Local Control of the Vasculature
Recall that smooth muscle contrac...,
Vasorelaxation is is achieved via,
How does extracellular potassium ...
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Regulation of Heart Rate & Arterial Pressure
What is the equation for blood pr...,
According to frank starling at a ...,
The heart rate is principally con...
16
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Cardiac output and Venous Return
An increase in preload will ___ c...,
Whats the relationship between co...,
How do ace inhibitors restore con...
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Response to Exercise and Stress
Neural regulation even anticipati...,
As you increase exercise cardiac ...,
Local metabolic factors
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Pulmonary Structure & Function
Functions of the lungs and the re...,
Blood clots pulmonary embolibacte...,
What is the sequence of layers ga...
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Ventilation
The volume of air that never reac...,
Functional residual capacity frc,
Tidal volume
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Diffusion
What variables affect gas exchange,
In comparison to oxygen co2,
Most of the oxygen carried in the...
26
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Blood Flow and Metabolism
For flow to be the same on both t...,
The entire blood supply moves thr...,
What are the systolic and diastol...
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Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships
What are the 4 physiological caus...,
As you go from the top to the bot...,
Alveolar co2 level is equal to
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Gas Transport by the Blood
Three ways co,
Haldane effect,
Explain and quantify in numeric t...
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Mechanics of Breathing
Work of breathing,
What are the muscles and movement...,
What factors create elasticity of...
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Control of Ventilation
Central controllers of the respir...,
Respiratory effectors,
Sensors of the respiratory contro...
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Respiratory System Under Stress
Describe how oxygen consumption c...,
Why do we see minute ventilation ...,
How does cardiac output change in...
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Body Fluids (just handout)
Essential fat vs storage fat,
Hypertrophic obesity vs hyperplas...,
Intracellular volume
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gfr & renal clearance
Equation for renal clearance,
Renal clearance of albumin glucos...,
Inulin
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proximal tubule
Proximal tubule is responsible for,
Tubular reabsorptionvs tubular se...,
What are the 3 major characterist...
30
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loop of henle
2 fxns,
Are there more cortical or juxtam...,
3 parts of the loop
26
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distal tubule & collecting duct
Wh,
The distal tubule and collecting ...,
What is the main function of the ...
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renal hormones
Describe the renin angiotensin sy...,
What activates the renin angioten...,
The roles of the ras system
28
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bp regulation & htn
Difference in bp between a patien...,
Hypertension,
Mechanisms of getting hypertension
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acid base
According to the henderson hassel...,
What are the two types of acid loads
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SWALLOWING & GASTRIC EMPTYING
Inner circular layer of muscle is...,
Where do you find skeletal muscle...,
Upper tract is innervated by ___l...
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MOTILITY
What happens in the small intestine,
___ ___ absorbed in the upper sma...,
Segmentations ring like contracti...
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SECRETIONS
3 pairs of exocrine salivary glan...,
Describe the products of the paro...,
Salivon
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STOMACH
Major functions of the stomach,
Digestion in the stomach,
Name the
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PANCREAS
Exocrine functions of pancresa,
Endocrine function of pancreas,
Exocrine cells themselves are pac...
30
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LIVER
Describe the dual blood supply of...,
Peribiliary plexus,
The hepatocyte is a one cell thic...
47
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DIGESTION & ABSORPTION I
Mucosa of the small inestine,
Submucosa of small inestine,
Muscularis externa of small intes...
40
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Endocrine Organ
Parenchyma,
Common feature sof endocrine organs,
Neuroendocrine cells
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Growth Hormone & Somatomedin
Somatotrophs comprise _ of the ho...,
Major physiological effects of gh,
Regulation of gh pulsatile secretion
42
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Independent: Ovary
Gsh targets what,
Effects of,
Inhibin b
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Thyroid Hormones
Hypothalamic trh pituitary tsh th...,
Describe the structure of a follicle,
Thyroid gland also contains ___ t...
41
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