BIOM 3200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Chronotropic, Phlebitis, Hypoventilation

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Dark staining lines are known as intercalated discs. 12. 32 myocardial cells are interconnected by gap junctions. The gap junctions are fluid-filled channels through the plasma membrane of adjacent cells that permit the conduction of impulses from one cell to the next. The gap junctions are concentrated at the ends of each myocardial cell, and each gap junction is composed of connexin proteins. The rate of spontaneous depolarization and the rate of the heart beat are regulated by autonomic innervation. Ca++ into the cytoplasm, which then binds to troponin and stimulates contraction: for the muscular chambers of the heart to relax, the ca++ in the cytoplasm must be actively transported back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum. They attach to regions of the plasma membrane of the smooth muscle cell or to cytoplasmic protein structures called dense bodies: myofilaments and dense bodies occupy as much as 90% of the volume of a smooth muscle cell.

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