KINESIOL 1YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Electric Organ, Heart Rate, Sensory Nerve

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20. 1 functions of the heart: generating blood pressure. Surface area change in blood vessel diameter: routing blood: 3 circulations: (pulmonary, systemic, coronary, ensuring one-way blood flow: valves (preventing backflow, regulating blood supply. Changes in contraction rate and force match blood delivery to changing metabolic needs. Example: riding a bike (blood flow to legs increase, blood flow to internal organs decrease) Elongated, branching cells containing 1-2 centrally located nuclei. Gap junctions allow action potentials to move from one cell to the next. The heart is an electromechanical organ: mechanical: cardiac cells contract, produce force and generates mechanical energy (causes blood to move). Electrical: signals (action potentials) causing the cells to contract. Electromechanical delay: the time between the onset of an electrical stimulus (action potential) and the onset of the mechanical response (force production) . Sa node: nodal cells (rhythmical action potentials, pacemaker) Av node: nodal cells, small time delay, slow conduction.

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