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Cardiac cycle
The heart is myogenic = it does not need nerve muscles in order to contract
However there is a region which initiates it
The sinoatrial nodes sends a wave of excitation then the atrium contracts
The Atrioventricular node sends a
The delay is roughly 0.1 seconds (very short)
This atria will not contract until the ventricle relaxes
Vagus nerve slows the heart coming form the medulla of the CNS
The accelerator nerve has noradrenaline
If your respiration goes up then your c02 levels will rise a little and this will be
detected by chemoreceptors
Pick up tiny c02 changes in the blood and in response send signals to the
medulla, if raised levels of c02 then the signal will be sent to the cardiac nerve
(cranial nerve) then to the Sino atrial causes it to produces waves of excitation
at a faster rate therefore the heart rate rises
Why c02 levels fall the medulla sends the signal to the vagus nerve then it goes
to the sinoatrial node and the waves are slowed so the heart rate slows.
Artery structure
Capillary
IMMUNOLOGY
Monocytes
B lymphocytes (antibodies)
Earwax
T-helper cells help with mitotic proliferation and many clones of the
antibody are made