KIN 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Interventricular Septum, Cardiac Muscle Cell, Pacemaker Potential

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When cardiac muscle contracts the volume of the heart decreases and blood moves from high pressure to low pressure. Gap junctions where calcium leaks through. Calcium released in one cardiac muscle cell can leak into the next. Dont need nerves to initiate contraction of the heart. Used to speed up or slow down contractions. Contractile cells with myofibrils and gap junctions. Conducting cells with few myofibrils, specialized to transmit action potential. Initiation of heart beat is in the sa node. Internodal pathway sends out action potentials septum: the subendocardial conducting network depolarizes the contractile cells of both ventricles. Generation of action potential, skeletal vs, cardiac muscle. Speed at which we get to the action potentials are different. Faster pacemaker potential depolarization = increased heart rate. Slower pacemaker potential depolarization = decreased heart rate. Voltage gated sodium ion channels open at threshold. The pacemaker potential is due to sodium leaking in and slower potassium leaking out.

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