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CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM WORKSHEET

The Cardiovascular System Consists of the Heart and Blood Vessels (p. 458)

1.An artery is:

2.A vein is:

3.How is an Atrium different from a Ventricle?

4. The pulmonary circuit can be described as going from the ______ventricle to the ______atrium.

5. The systemic circuit can be described as going from the ______ventricle to the ______atrium.

CARDIAC MUSCLE AND THE HEART - The Heart Has Four Chambers

6.Name 3 functions of the fibroskeleton surrounding the openings to major arteries and chambers. (Fig. 14-9)

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2)

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7.What is mitral valve stenosis? What can it result in?

8.What is AV valve prolapse?What can it result in?

Cardiac Muscle Cells Contract without Nervous Stimulation

9. About 1% of myocardiocytes are ______.

The heart can contract without connections to other parts of the body, because the signal is ______, meaning that it is ______.

Excitation-Contraction (EC) Coupling in Cardiac Muscle is Similar to Smooth and Skeletal Muscle

10. In cardiac muscle, an AP also initiates EC coupling, but the AP originates spontaneously in the hearts pacemaker cells and spreads into the contractile cells through ______.

11. The ryanodine receptors are Ca2+ channels and opening them causes ______.

12. The Ca2+released from the SR provides about ______of the Ca2+needed for muscle contraction.

13.In cardiac muscle, when cytoplasmic Ca2+concentrations decrease, what happens to the muscle?

14.What are the two ways that Ca2+is removed from the cytoplasm of cardiac muscle cells?

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2)

15. For the Na+-Ca2+antiport protein, _____Ca2+moves ______cell for every _____ Na+moving ______.

Cardiac Muscle Contraction can be Graded

16.The force generated by cardiac muscle is proportional to the number of crossbridges that are active. The number of active crossbridges is determined by ______.

17. What happens to cardiac muscle when it is stretched? ______.

Myocardial Contractile Cells

18. In the contractile myocardiocytes the resting membrane potential is about ______.

19. The depolarization phase is caused by: ______.

20. The plateau phase is caused by: ______.

21. The repolarization phase is caused by: ______.

Myocardial Autorhythmic Cells

22.From Fig. 14-15, note that the membrane potential is not stable, but fluctuates from ______mV to ______mV (which is threshold for these cells). At threshold, Ca2+______the cell at even greater amounts.

23. The depolarization phase is caused by: ______.

24. The repolarization phase is caused by: ______.

The Heart as a Pump

25. From Fig. 14-18 (p. 478), list the order of the electrical conduction in the heart.

26. Which of the areas listed above is the normal Pacemaker of the heart? ______.

The Heart Contracts and Relaxes Once during the Cardiac Cycle

27. Diastole is:

28. Systole is:

1) The heart at 'rest': Atrial and ventricular diastole (Fig. l4-24)

29.Is the heart in atrial and ventricular systole at the same time during this phase? ______.

30.When both the atria and ventricles are relaxing: Which valves are open? ______.

31.Is blood flowing into the heart? _____. Which chambers? ______.

2) Completion of ventricular filling:Atrial systole

32.In a person at rest, how much of ventricular filling depends on atrial contraction? ______.

33.What wave or wave segment on the ECG is associated with this phase? ______.

3) Early ventricular contraction and the first heart sound

34.What electrical event precedes ventricular systole? ______.

35.As the ventricles contract, why do the AV valves close? ______.

36.What creates the heart sounds? ______.

37.Explain what is happening during isovolumetric ventricular contraction.

38.What happens to pressure in the ventricles during isovolumetric ventricular contraction? ______.

4) The heart pumps: ventricular ejection

39.Why do the semilunar valves open, allowing blood to be ejected into the arteries?

40.If blood flows out of the ventricles, then ventricular pressure must be (lower/higher?) than arterial pressure.

5) Ventricular diastole and the second heart sound

41.As the ventricles relax, the ventricular pressure (increases/decreases?).

42.Why do the semilunar valves close? ______.

43.When do the AV valves open? ______.

Stroke Volume is the Volume of Blood Pumped by one Ventricle in one Contraction

44.Define stroke volume. (Give units!) ______

45.How do you calculate stroke volume? ______

46.If the EDV increases and the ESV decreases, has the heart pumped more or less blood?

Cardiac Output is a Measure of Cardiac Performance

46.Define cardiac output (CO). (Give units!) ______

47.Give average values for stroke volume and CO in a man weighing 70 kg while at rest:

Heart Rate is Modulated by Autonomic Neurons and Catecholamines

48.Explain the antagonistic control of heart rate by sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons. (Fig. 14-28)

49.Name the parasympathetic and sympathetic neurotransmitters and their receptors at the SA node.

Multiple Factors Influence Stroke Volume

50.Stroke volume is directly related to the ______generated by cardiac muscle during contraction.