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Biology Ch 7. The Cardiovascular System Flashcards

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Cardiovascular system

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Consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood

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Heart

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Composed of cardiac muscles and supports both the pulmonary and systemic circulation, four chambers, both sides have an atrium and a ventricle, left side has more muscle than right because the systemic circulation has a much higher resistance and pressure

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Pulmonary circulation

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Circulation system from the right ventricle to the lungs and then back to the left atrium

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Systemic circulation

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Circulation system throughout the body from the left ventricle and finally back to the right atrium

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Atrioventricular valves

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Separate the atria from the ventricles, tricuspid (three leaflets) on the right and mitral (bicuspid, two leaflets) on the left

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Semilunar valves

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Separate the ventricles from the vasculature, pulmonary on the right and aortic on the left, allow the heart to create the pressure within the ventricles necessary to propel blood forward within the circulation while also preventing back flow, both three leaflets

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Blood pathway

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Right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary artery, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins, vena cava, right atrium

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Electrical conduction of the heart

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SA node, AV node, Bundles of His, Purkinje fibers

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Sinoatrial node

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SA node - where electrical conduction of the heart starts, generates 60-100 signals per minute without requiring any neurological input, small collection of cells located in the wall of the right atrium, causes two atria to contract simultaneously

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Atrioventricular node

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AV node - sits at the junction of the atria and the ventricles, signal delayed here so that the ventricles can fill completely before they contract

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Bundles of His

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Has branches embedded in the inter ventricular septum (wall)

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Purkinje fibers

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Distribute the electrical signal through the ventricular muscle

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Systole

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Results in an increase in atrial pressure that forces a little more blood into the ventricles then the AV valves are closed

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Diastole

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Period where the heart is relaxed and the semilunar valves are closed

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Cardiac output

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Product of heart rate x stroke volume, about 5 liters per minute for humans

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Parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system cardiac output

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Sympathetic NS increased the heart rate and contractility, parasympathetic NS decreases heart rate

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Vasculature

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Consists of arteries, veins, and capillaries

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Arteries

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Thick, highly muscular structures with an elastic quality (high resistance to blood flow), allows for recoil and helps to propel blood forward within the system, blood travels away from the heart, largest is aorta , branch into arterioles, much more smooth muscle than veins, most oxygenated except pulmonary and umbilical

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Arterioles

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Small muscular arteries which control flow into capillary beds

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Capillaries

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Have walls that are one endothelial cell thick, very narrow and red blood cells must travel through them single file, site of gas, nutrient, and waste exchange, interface for communication of the circulatory system and tissues, delicate and when damaged, blood can enter interstitial space and result in bruise

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Veins

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Inelastic, thin-walled structures that transport blood to the heart, they are able to stretch in order to accommodate large volumes of blood but do not have recoil capability, are compressed by surrounding skeletal muscles and have valves to maintains one way flow, carry deoxygenated blood other than pulmonary veins and umbilical vein

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Venules

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Form from joined capillaries, join into veins

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Portal system

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A system in which blood passes through two capillary beds in series, not typical because usually blood only passes through one

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Hepatic portal system

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Blood travels from the gut capillary beds to the liver capillary bed via the hepatic portal vein

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Hypophyseal portal system
Blood travels from the capillary bed in the hypothalamus to the capillary bed in the anterior pituitary
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Renal portal system
Blood travels from the glomerulus to the vas recta through an efferent arteriole
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Atria
Thin walled structures where blood is received from either the venae cavae
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Ventricles
Send blood to lungs and the systemic circulation, more muscular than the atria
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Atrial kick
Additional blood forced into the ventricles during atrial systole, accounts for only 5-30% of cardiac output because most ventricular filling is passive
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Interventricular septum
Wall where bundle of His are embedded
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Intercalated discs
Connects muscle cells, contain many gap junctions directly connecting the cytoplasm of adjacent cells, allows for coordinated ventricular contraction
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Vagus nerve
Nerve through which parasympathetic signals travel to the heart slowing down the heart rate
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Blood vessel endothelial cells
Endothelial cells lines all blood vessels, helps to maintain the vessel by releasing chemicals that aid in vasodilation and vasoconstriction, allow white blood cells to pass through the vessel wall and into the tissues during an inflammatory response, also release chemicals when damaged that are involved in the formation of blood clots to repair the vessel and stop bleeding
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Venae cavae
Returns blood to right atrium of heart, divided into superior and inferior vena cava
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Blood
Composed of cells and plasma
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Erythrocyotes
aka red blood cells, lack mitochondria, a nucleus, and organelles in order to make room for hemoglobin, have biconcave shape to increase SA and for easier travel through capillaries, do not consume oxygen, get ATP via glycolysis, unable to divide
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Hemoglobin
A protein that carries 4 oxygens, on erythrocytes
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Hematocrit
The percentage of blood composed of erythrocytes
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Leukocytes
aka white blood cells, are formed in the bone marrow, crucial part of the immune system, divided into granular and agranulocytes
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Granular leukocytes
Contain cytoplasmic granules which contain a variety of compounds that are toxic to invading microbes, includes neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils, play a role in nonspecific immunity especially inflammatory reactions, allergies, pus formation, and destruction of bacteria and parasites
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Agranulocytes
Includes lymphocytes and monocytes, plays a role in immunity
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Thrombocytes
aka platlets, cell fragments from megakaryocytes that are required for coagulation
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Megakaryocytes
Type of cell in bone marrow that creates thrombocytes
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Blood ABO antigens
Surface antigens A, B, and O, IA and IB alleles are codominant while the I allele is recessive, an individual has antibodies for any AB alleles they dont have
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Plasma
An aqueous mixture of nutrients, salts, respiratory gases, hormones, and blood proteins
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Blood cells
Erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets, all formed from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow
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Lymphocytes
Play a large role in specific immunity, includes B and T cells
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Specific immune response
The body's targeted fight against particular pathogens such as viruses and bacteria
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B cells
Mature in the bone marrow, responsible for antibody generation
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T cells
Mature in the thymus, kill virally infected cells and activate other immune cells
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Monocytes
Phagocytize foreign matter such as bacteria, renamed as macrophages once they leave the bloodstream and enter an organ
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Macrophages
Monocytes that have entered an organ from the bloodstream, called microglia in the CNS, Langerhans cells in the skin, and osteoclasts in the bone
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Hematopoiesis
The production of blood cells and platelets, triggered by a number of hormones, growth factors, and cytokines
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Erythropoietin
Secreted by the kidney and stimulates mainly erythrocyte development
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Thrombopoietin
Secreted by the liver and kidney and stimulates mainly platelet development
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Rh factor
Also surface protein on red blood cells, the positive Rh factor is dominant and a negative individuals will only create anti Rh antibodies after exposure to Rh positive blood, makes for complications such as erythroblastosis fetalis during childbirth
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Antigens
Surface proteins expressed by red blood cells, any specific target to which the immune system can react
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Universal donors
People with type O blood because their blood will not cause an ABO related hemolysis in any recipient, they express neither antigen variant
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Universal recipients
People with type AB blood because they can receive blood from all blood types
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Erythroblastosis fetalis
Condition where Rh- maternal anti-Rh antibodies cross the placenta and attack fetal blood cells, can be lethal, medication can treat, not a problem for first child because mom does make anti-Rh antibodies until exposed to Rh+ the first time, bigger issue that ABO because anti-Rh IgG antibodies can cross placenta while AB IgM antibodies cannot
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Blood pressure
The force per unit area that is exerted on the walls of blood vessels by blood, divided into systolic and diastolic components, must be high enough to overcome the resistance created by arterials and capillaries, but low enough to avoid damaging the vasculature and surrounding structures, measured by sphygmomanometer, maintained by baroreceptor and chemoreceptor reflexes
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Sphygmomanometer
Can measure blood pressure, measures gauge pressure
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Low blood pressure
Promotes aldosterone and antidiuretic hormone (ADH or vasopressin) release
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High blood pressure
Promotes atrial natriuretic peptide release
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Antidiuretic hormone
ADH - aka vasopressin, released because of low blood pressure or high blood osmolarity, peptide hormone made in hypothalamus but stored in posterior pituitary, causes increased reabsorption of water
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Atrial natriuretic peptide
ANP - hormone released by special atrial cells in response to high blood pressure, aids in the loss of salt within the nephron, weak natural diuretic
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Starling forces
Consist of the balancing between hydrostatic and osmotic pressures, essential to maintain the proper fluid volumes and solute concentrations inside and outside the vasculature
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Hydrostatic pressure
The pressure of the fluid within the blood vessel, generated by the contraction of the heart and the elasticity of the arteries, forces fluid out at the arteriolar end of a capillary bed (forces water out of circulation)
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Osmotic pressure
The "sucking" pressure drawing water toward solutes
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Onconic pressure
Osmotic pressure due to proteins, draws fluid back in at the venule end of capillary beds
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Cooperative binding
Form of allosteric regulation, type of binding by which hemoglobin carries oxygen, each successive oxygen bound to hemoglobin increases the affinity of the other subunits, while each successive oxygen released decreases the affinity of the other subunits
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Oxygen hemoglobin binding
Cooperative binding, in the lungs, high partial pressure of oxygen resulting in the loading of oxygen onto hemoglobin, in the tissues, low partial pressure of oxygen resulting in unloading, much occur because oxygen not soluble
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Carbon dioxide blood stream
Carried in the form of carbonic acid or bicarbonate and hydrogen ions because carbon dioxide non polar and not particularly soluble, carbon dioxide catalyzed into carbonic acid by carbonic anhydrase, bicarbonate buffer
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Oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve
S-shaped curve that is a result of cooperative binding, reflects affinity for oxygen, a high air partial pressure of CO2, high H+ concentration, low pH, high temp, and high concentration of 2,3 BPG will cause a right shift in the curve, reflecting a decreased affinity for oxygen, left shift in curve for fetal hemoglobin
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Coagulation cascade
Results from an activation cascade when the endothelial lining of a blood vessel is damaged and collagen and tissue factor are exposed, ultimately results in the formation of a clot over the damaged area
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Tissue factor
Protein that becomes exposed during blood vessel damage and are detected by coagulation factors to trigger coagulation cascade
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Fibrin
Stabilize platelets that bind to the collagen during coagulation cascade, activated by thrombin, forms small fibers that aggregate and cross link into a woven net structure, captures red blood cells and platelets, forms stable clot over area of damage
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Thrombin
Coverts fibrinogen to fibrin, formed because of the activation of prothrombin by thromboplastin
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Plasmin
Breaks down clots, generated by plasminogen
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Pressure differential across circulation
Cardiac output x total peripheral (vascular) resistance
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Blood pressure baroreceptors
In walls of vasculature, can stimulate sympathetic nervous system to vasoconstrict, increasing blood pressure
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Blood pressure chemoreceptors
Can sense osmolarity of the blood, promote release of aldosterone, ADH, or ANP
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Aldosterone
Increases the reabsorption of sodium, and by extension water, thereby increasing the blood volume and pressure
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Hemoglobin
A protein composed of four cooperative heme subunits that each bind to an oxygen molecule, conformational change from taut to relaxed occurs with first binding of oxygen and changes back after first oxygen leaves
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Oxygen saturation
the percentage of hemoglobin molecules carrying oxygen, normal above 97%
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Bohr effect
Decreased affinity for oxygen that occurs because decreased pH, which decreases affinity (a right shift in the oxyhemoglobin curve)
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Decreased oxyhemoglobin affinity
Allows for more oxygen to be unloaded at the tissues
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Fetal hemoglobin (HbF)
Has a higher affinity for oxygen than adult hemoglobin, shifts oxyhemoglobin curve to the left
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Edema
Accumulation of excess fluid in the interstitial
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Lymph
Lymphatic fluid, returned to the central circulatory system by the thoracic duct, blockage of nodes can result in edema
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Thoracic duct
Channel that returns lymph to the central circulatory system
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Clot
Composed of both coagulation factors and platelets, prevent (or minimize) blood loss
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Coagulation factors
Most secreted by the liver, sense tissue factor and initiate coagulation cascade
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Plasminogen
Generates plasmin
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Prothrombin
Forms thrombin by thromboplastin
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Fibrinogen
Converted to fibrin by thrombin during coagulation cascade

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