Physiology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vascular Resistance, Blood Vessel, Starling Equation
20 Dec 2015
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Describe and explain the general organization and anatomy of the cardiovascular system, including the heart and blood vessels. Describe the blood volume distribution within the different blood vessels and explain the significance of the different volumes. Describe and explain the relationship between pressure, flow, and resistance. Describe the changes to pressure and resistance throughout the circulatory system and explain why pressure and resistance are different in different vascular beds. Explain what would happen to blood pressure above and below a constriction. Calculate total peripheral resistance (tpr) in an individual and explain what would happen to blood pressure if the tpr changed. Describe the structural features (amount of muscle, elastic tissue, and fibrous tissue) of all the different blood vessels and how these features contribute to the specific characteristics of these vessels (stretchability and so on). Describe the lymphatic system and explain how it regulates the interstitial body fluid and how it is related to the starling forces.
