Lab Final Flashcards

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Familial hemiplegic migraine - symptoms

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  • migraine with aura
  • temporary weakness on one side of body (hemiplegic)
  • genetic/familial –> occurs in two+ people in one family
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Familial hemiplegic migraine - therapy

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  • Cortical hyper-excitability basis vulnerability to cortical spreading depression (CSD) and migraine attacks
  • novel treatments consider CSD and cortical excitability
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Familial hemiplegic migraine - ion channel

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Voltage-gated calcium channels

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Familial hemiplegic migraine - causation

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Genetic defect in one of three genes

  • FHM1 –> calcium channel works incorrectly occasionally; increased NT release facilitates CSD
  • FHM2 –> loss of function of Na/K-ATPase
  • FHM3 –> accelerates recovery from fast inactivation of Na channels
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Myasthenia gravis - symptoms

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  • “grave muscle weakness”

- chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease with varying degrees of skeletal muscle weakness

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Ocular myasthenia

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myasthenia gravis limited to extra-ocular muscles and eyelids

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generalized myasthenia

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myasthenia gravis affecting limb, bulbar and respiratory muscles

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myasthenia gravis - receptor

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nicotinic receptors

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myasthenia gravis - cause

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antibodies attack muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAchR)
OR
antibodies attack other targets like muscle specific kinase (MuSK) which indirectly reduce nAchR numbers

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myasthenia gravis - therapy

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  • immunosuppressants
  • removing antibody
  • acetylcholinesterase inhibitors to manage symptoms
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long QT syndrome - symptoms

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  • prolonged QT interval on ECG

- ventricular tachyarrhythmias, syncope, cardiac arrest, sudden death

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long QT syndrome - cause

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Chromosomal mutations. Most common is mutations in alpha subunit of:

  • LQT1 or LQT2 (deficient potassium currents)
  • LQT3 (increased sodium current)
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long QT syndrome - channel

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KCNQ channel - potassium channel

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long QT syndrome - therapy

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  • beta blockers to slow heart rate by blocking effects of adrenaline
  • surgery: implant pacemaker, cardioverter defibrillator, left cervicothoracic sympathetic denervation
  • LQT1 and LQT2: drugs that open K channels
  • LQT3:drugs that block sodium channels
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cystic fibrosis - symptoms

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slowed mucus clearance from airways, difficulty breathing, difficulty digesting food

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cystic fibrosis - cause

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  • autosomal recessive genetic disorder
  • genetic mutation encodes CFTR protein which causes poor Cl- and Na+ transport across cell membranes
  • CFTR channel does not function normally at cell surface
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cystic fibrosis - channel

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  • cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein codes for CFTR chloride channel
  • CFTR (mainly chloride channel) has many regulatory roles including bicarbonate-chloride exchange (deficiency in bicarbonate secretion leads to collection of luminal mucins
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cystic fibrosis - therapy

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  • hypotonic saline
  • small molecule drugs that target deficits in CFTR gene
  • lung transplant
  • physical therapy to clear lung mucus
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kidney stone - symptoms

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  • urinary stones formed (mainly) by calcium salts
  • renal colic: intense pain, sporadic infections, renal failure, nausea, vomiting
  • pain from renal colic caused by stretching, dilation, and spasm from ureteral obstruction
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kidney stones - cause

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mutations of renal-specific chloride channel (CLCN5) gene

  • outward chloride currents reduced
  • failure to regulate endosomal pH, endocytose proteins, and reabsorb calcium resulting in loss of proteins through urine and calcium build up in urinary tract
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kidney stones - treatment

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  • drugs

- surgery: stent placement, remove stones, shockwaves

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kidney stones - channel

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CLCN5 channel

  • loss of function in proximal tubules causes decrease in protein endocytosis and increase in protein excretion
  • loss of function in thick ascending limb of Henle causes decrease in calcium reuptake
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23
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Galen - birth place and job title

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Roman physician

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23
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Galen: founder of _________________ ___________________

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experimental physiology

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23
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Galen - focused on __________________

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anatomy

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23
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Ibn al-Nafis - birthplace and job title

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Arab physician

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Ibn al-Nafis - area of interest and findings

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Pulmonary and coronary circulation, anatomy of heart and lungs

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Andreas Vesalius - birthplace and job title

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Flemish physician and anatomist

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Vesalius - best known for …..

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  • anatomic study of the human body, particularly muscle and skeletal systems
  • published seven books with extensive and accurate descriptions of human body
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Santorio - birthplace and job title

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Italian physician and physiologist

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Santorio: father of ____________ _______________ _______________

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metabolic balance studies

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28
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Santorio: best known for …..

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extensive study of comparing body weight and differences between ingested food and excretions

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William Harvey - birthplace and job title

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English physician and teacher

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William Harvey: best known for ……

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  • analyzing action of heart
  • describing accurate mechanism of heart pumping blood around body
  • postulated existence of capillaries
  • showed valves were important to circulation
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Regnier de Graaf: birthplace and job title

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Dutch physician and anatomist

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32
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Regnier de Graaf: best known for….

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pioneering study of pancreatic secretions

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Aloysis Galvani: birthplace and job title

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Italian physician and physicist

34
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Aloysius Galvani: best known for….

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  • Study of bioelectricity

- contacted leg muscles in frog via electrical current

35
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Claude Bernard: birthplace and job title

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French physiologist

36
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Claude Bernard: best known for….?

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  • Work in homeostasis
  • noted relative stability of internal environment, ability to survive in varying external environments depends on stable internal environment
  • horrific vivisection use
37
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Hermann von Helmholtz: birthplace and job title

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German physician

38
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Hermann von Helmholtz: best known for…

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  • determining velocity of nerve transmission
  • form and duration of muscle contractions
  • existence of latent period
39
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal: birthplace and job title

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Spanish neuroscientist

40
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal: best known for….?

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  • study of microscopic brain structure, nerve structure, nerve function
  • nerve degeneration and regeneration
41
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Walter Cannon: birthplace and job description

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American physiologist

42
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Walter Cannon: best known for….

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  • coined term homeostasis

- extended Bernard’s ideas to cell-tissue-organ level of organization

43
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Banting and Best: best known for….

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Discovery of insulin
(Banting was a Canadian medical scientist, who won the nobel prize in physiology and medicine and shared prize money with his assistant/medical student, Charles Best)

44
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Body Size and Metabolic Rate Lab: Kleiber equation

A

M = aW^b

M = total metabolism/unit time
W = body weight
a = normalization coefficient
b = scaling coefficient (0.75 fits many unicellular organisms, plants, metazoans)
45
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Name of synthetically made enzyme used to detect glucose levels

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g-quadruplex hemin bound DNAzyme

46
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Glucose metabolism: DNAzyme reaction with glucose

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glucose + 02 ——> gluconic acid +H202

H202 + DNAzyme + colourless ADHP —-> H20 + DNAzyme + red resorufin

47
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Metabolic Rate and Body Weight: General trend

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Decreased body weight = increased metabolic rate

No universal scaling coefficient that worked across all species

48
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Measures of movement: glucose metabolism lab

A

gill cover movements, pectoral fin movements, distance moved by fish, other behaviours

49
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Skeletal muscle

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Voluntary

Striated

50
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Cardiac muscle

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Involuntary

Striated

51
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Smooth muscle

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Involuntary

Non-striated

52
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Frog heart: warm ringers

A

faster

53
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Froggy cold ringers

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slowed HR

54
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Froggy ACh

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slowed heart rate

55
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Froggy adrenaline

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faster heart rate

56
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Froggy atropine

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blocks ACh

57
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Froggy dl-propanolol

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blocks adrenaline

58
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Froggy tubocurarine

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blocks ACh

59
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Dive response: what starts it?

A

Induced by holding breath and facial submersion in cold water

60
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Dive response: what happens?

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bradycardia, peripheral vasoconstriction, decreased oxygen uptake from lungs (conserve O2)

61
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Dive response: what is the point?

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Conserve O2 for vital organs, delay damage to tissues from hypoxia, increase possible duration of apnea

62
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Dive response: key findings

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Apnea CAUSES bradycardia

Cold temperature INCREASES bradycardia

63
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Caffeine and exercise: main findings

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Exercise = decreased contraction time, increased contraction strength
Caffeine = decreased contraction time, slight decrease in strength of contraction 
Both = decreased contraction time, biggest increase in strength
64
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motor unit

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a single motor neuron and the muscle cells it inervates

65
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wave summation (muscle)

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if a max strength second stimulus is applied before muscle relaxes, a second more tense contraction occurs (tetanus)

66
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Skeletal muscle contraction: key findings

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  • increase stimulus strength = increased contraction strength
  • contraction strength decreases as stimulus increases, when above maximal strength
67
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passive muscle tension

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inherent elasticity of muscle fibres

68
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active muscle tension

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created by stimulation of muscle

69
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Isometric muscle tension: key findings

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Increasing muscle length…

  • increased total tension
  • increased active tension until resting muscle length (35mm)
  • increased passive tension significantly after resting
70
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Ideal blood pressure

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120/80

71
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High blood pressure

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above 140/90

72
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Effects of caffeine on heart rate and blood pressure

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Raises heart rate and systolic BP at rest and with exercise

73
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Isolated nerve function: key results

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increased stimulus strength = increased CAP amplitude

74
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maximum response in isolated nerve function

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peak at which increase in stimulus voltage can no longer increase CAP amplitude

75
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Refractory period

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Period in which a nerve cannot conduct another action potential

76
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Conduction velocity is affected by what factors of a nerve?

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Diameter, myelination, and location of nerve being measured

77
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What factors influence respiratory rate during exercise?

A
  • More 02 needed, more C02 produced
  • Chemoreceptors detect increased CO2
  • decreased blood pH
  • lungs respond by activating more alveoli to take part in gas exchange
78
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Oxygen demand can be compensated for by…

A

Increasing breathing rate
OR
increasing tidal volume

79
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Tidal volume

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volume inhaled/exhaled during normal breathing

80
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Expiratory reserve volume

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volume that can be forcibly exhaled after normal exhalation

81
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Inspiratory reserve volume

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Volume that can be forcibly inhaled after a normal inhalation

82
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Residual volume

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air in lungs after maximal exhalation

83
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Vital capacity

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largest volume that can be exhaled forcibly after maximal inhalation

84
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Functional residual capacity

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volume remaining in lungs after normal expiration

85
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Spirometer

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used to measure air capacity of lungs by measuring difference in pressure during breathing

86
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Respiratory volume and exercise: key results

A

exercise. ..

- increased rate of breathing, tidal volume