BSC 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sympathetic Nervous System, Pacemaker Potential, Autonomic Nervous System

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Bsc2011 - integrated principles of biology 2 - lecture 21: circulation part 2. Specialized cardiac muscle cells form pacemaker potentials and coordinate contraction in the heart. Heart muscle has action potential that carry out electrical signals. Specialized muscle tissues distribute the electrical signal. The sinoatrial (sa) node is the pacemaker potential and sets the pace. The sa node fires once a minute. The atrioventricular (av) node fires and the ventricle contracts. Blood is pushed out of the top of the ventricle, bottoms up, like a squeezing toothpaste out of a tube. Waves of depolarization in the heart muscle cells cause electrical potentials on the skin that are measure by ekgs. Atrial depolarization comes from the sa node. There is a pause before the next wave. The wave is bigger because the ventricle is bigger in size. At rest, there is negative charge inside and positive charge outside. Waves of depolarization causes the charges to switch.

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