BIOC33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Isochoric Process, Postganglionic Nerve Fibers, Preganglionic Nerve Fibers

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Lecture 4: the cardiac cycle, heart pressures and cardiac output heart rate) regulation: the cardiac cycle. See lecture 3 notes for the detailed description of the cardiac cycle. The cardiac cycle is simply the cycle of changes in volume and pressure, as well as the opening and closing of the av and semilunar valves, that occur during a single contraction and relaxation of the heart. It is easiest to conceptualize this cycle if we begin during the late period of relaxation, or late diastole. At this point, the ventricles are filling with blood passively, with blood flowing from the vena cava, through the right atria and into the right ventricle. Blood also flows from the lungs, through the pulmonary veins, into the left atria and then into the left ventricle. In the final phase of the diastolic part of the cardiac cycle, the atria contract, pumping a little more blood into the ventricles.

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