KINESIOL 1YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tricuspid Valve, Atrioventricular Node, Interatrial Septum

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Heart skeleton - fibrous plate of connective tissue. Heart skeleton represented in white excluding the valves. Forms a plate that separates the atria from the ventricles. Important because we want to have control over the action potentials that move through the heart. Insulates the electrical signals that go through the atria and ventricles. Structural support and an attachment point for the valves. Acts as an attachment point for the cardiac muscles. As it contracts it pulls the apex towards the fibrous plate - it"s going to twist due to the orientation of the fibers - twists & rings - allows the blood to pump out more efficiently. Cardiac muscle are elongated but don"t run the whole length - attached in series. Cardiac muscle cells can have branch points - extension to a neighboring cell. Not multinuclear - 1 to 2 nuclei - located in the center of the cell. Not as many myofibrils compares to skeletal muscle.

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