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What is the relationship between the heart and the brain known as?

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Neuro-cardiac axis

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What are the typical Stroke volume values at rest?

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60-65

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What are the 3 types of neural control?

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Higher brain centre control, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system control

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What is the cardiovascular control centre?

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Medulla oblongata

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What is found in the sympathetic centre?

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Distinct accelerator and augmentor

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What is found in the parasympathetic centre?

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Nucleus vagus and nucleus ambigous

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What does the augmentor do?

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Changes the contractility of the heart

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What does the nucleus ambiguous do?

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Collection of cells in the brain stem

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What does the sympathetic nervous system release?

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NA - noradrenaline

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What does the sympathetic nervous system increase?

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Heart rate and contractility

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Describe the structure of the sympathetic nervous system

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Short pre ganglion fibres and long autonomic ganglions

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Where is the autonomic ganglion located in the sympathetic nervous system?

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C6-C7, at the bottom for your neck

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What is the stellate ganglion?

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A collection of sympathetic nerves - it has a star apperance

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What is released at the heart and the ganglion in sympathetic nervous system?

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ACH at the ganglion and NA at the heart

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What do Sympathetic nerves act on in the heart?

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Beta 1 receptors

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What is lusitopy?

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The rate of relaxation, want the heart to fill, if the heart can relax properly then it cannot fill up with blood

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Where do fibres coming from the right side of the heart go to?

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The nodal

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Where do fibres coming out of the left side of the heart go to?

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Ventricular tissue

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What is dromotropy?

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The electrical conduction through the heart through the atrial ventricular node

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What does a positive dromotropic effect do?

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Speeds up the conduction of the electrical activity through the heart

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Where are autonomic ganglion found in the parasympathetic nervous system?

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On the heart

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Describe the structure of the parasympathetic nervous system

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Long pre ganglionic and short autonomic ganglionic

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What neurotransmitters are released in parasympathetic?

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Just ACH

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What does the parasympathetic nervous system control?

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SA node and AV node

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What decreases in the parasympathetic nervous system?
Heart rate and it has little effect on the contractility
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What receptors does the parasympathetic nervous system act on?
Muscarinic
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What is found on the outside of the heart?
Epicardial fat
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What branches off the epicardial fat surrounding the heart?
Vagus nerve
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Where are the ganglia found?
Surrounding the SA node and the AV node
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What happens when you add a beta blocker to the sympathetic nervous system?
A decrease in heart beat as you take away the accelerated function
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What is an Example for a beta blocker?
Propranolol
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What does atropine do?
Bocks the muscarinic receptors and increase in the heart rate
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What is the predominant nervous system during fight or flight?
Sympathetic nervous system
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What happens if you inhibit the parasympathetic nervous system?
It will lead to a rise in heart rate
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What happens if you inhibit sympathetic nervous system?
Will decrease heart rate
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Where is the Majority of the areas of the brain that play important roles in nervous regulation?
The vasomotor centre - lower third of the pons
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What does the vasomotor centre transmit?
Sympathies impulses through the spinal chord and peripheral sympathetic nerves to all arteries, arterioles and veins of the body
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Where do the sympathetic vasomotor nerve fibres leave the spinal cord through?
The thoracic spinal nerves and 1st one or two lumbar spinal nerves
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What vessels are not innervated?
Capillaries, precapillary sphincters and metarterioles
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What does innervation of the small arteries and arterioles allow?
Sympathetic stimulation to increase resistance to blood flow and decrease rate of blood flow through the tissue
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What is synthetic innervation?
When there is a release of NA it will cause constriction of the vessels and cause increase resistance and decrease the flow (synthetic vascoconstriction)
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What innervation to you have in a muscular artery?
Noradrenergic innervation
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Where is NA released in a muscular artery?
Lumps/nodules
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What happens when anaesthesia is added to the spinal cord?
Neural transmission stops and pressure drops
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What happens when NA is added back into the neural flow?
Blood pressure increases - representing there is a neuronal control of blood flow
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What neurotransmitters are released in signal transduction at sympathetic varicosity?
NA, ATP and neuropeptide-Y
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What does neuropeptide-Y act on?
Acts on NPY-1 receptors
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What determines flow in a vessel?
Pressure and resistance
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What does resistance to flow depend on?
The radius of the vessel to the power of 4
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What do small changes in the radius of the vessel alter?
The flow which alters the pressure
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What is the main target for sympathies NS effect on vasaculture?
Small arteries and large arterioles (decreases blood flow by vasoconstriction)
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Describe the venous system
Where the majority of the blood is in your veins at one time
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What has component has poor innervation?
Muscle veins
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What happens if central BP drops?
Venoconstriction diverts blood to systemic circulation - blood can be shifted to where it is needed
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What is sympathetic vasodilation mediated by?
Circulating adrenaline or a cholinergic sensitive NA release
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What specific tissues does parasympathetic vasodilation target?
No important in cardiovascular but in salivary glands, pancreas, GI tract and genital erectile tissue
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What are the 4 main endocrine systems that regulate blood pressure?
Adrenaline, Antidiuretic hormone, renin-angiotensin system and natriuretic peptides
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Where does adrenaline come from?
Comes from the adrenal medulla on top of the kidneys
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What are the transmitters for adrenaline?
Alpha 1, beta 1 and 2
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What does alpha 1 do?
Constricts blood vessels
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What does adrenaline coming from the adrenal medulla do?
Increases cardiac output
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When is ADH released?
When sensors in the brain detect changes in osmolarity
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What are osmoreceptors?
They are collections of cells located in the hypothalamus that lead to a production in ADH
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What are some examples of osmoreceptors?
Supraoptic nuclei and paraventricular nuclei
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Where are the osmoreceptors secreted to?
Down to the posterior element of the pituitary gland
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When is ADH released?
When blood plasma increases above the set point of 280mOsm
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In non Osmolar when is ADH triggered?
Below 10%
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When is Renin-angiotensin stimulated?
When there is a drop in blood pressure
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What does renin act on?
Angiotensin
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What does angiotensin cleave?
Angiotensin 1
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What enzyme does angiotensin 1 act on?
ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme)
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What is formed when ACE acts on angiotensin 1?
An ocotpeptide called angiotensin 2
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Where is ACE released from?
Endothelial cells
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What is angiotensin 2?
A potent vasoconstrictor
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What is a common first line treatment for people will high blood pressure? (Hypertension)
ACE inhibitors
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What is a way of reducing vasoconstriction?
Preventing the conversion of angiotensin 1 to 2
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What are the 2 types of natriuretic peptides?
ANP (Atrial) and BNP (brain)
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What do natriuretic peptides do?
Get rid of sodium and water
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What do Natriuretic peptides decrease?
Blood volume which decreases blood pressure

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