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Membrane potential is dependent on what? |
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Membrane potential is created primarily due to what ion? |
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Contracting and conducting cardiac myocytes respond to what type of action potential? |
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Pacemaker cells in the SA and AV node respond to what type of action potential? |
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What is the resting membrane potential in fast-response cardiac myocytes? |
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What is the resting membrane potential in slow-response pacemaker cells? |
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What occurs during phase 0 of an action potential in ventricular cardiac myocytes? |
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What occurs during phase 1 of an action potential in ventricular cardiac myocytes?
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Early partial repolarization |
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What occurs during phase 2 of an action potential in ventricular cardiac myocytes?
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What occurs during phase 3 of an action potential in ventricular cardiac myocytes?
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What occurs during phase 4 of an action potential in ventricular cardiac myocytes?
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What causes rapid depolarization during phase 0 in cardiac myocytes? |
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Rapid Na+ influx through voltage gated channels |
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What causes early partial repolarization during phase 1 in cardiac myocytes? |
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Efflux of K+ and the transient outward K+ current |
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What causes the plateau phase during phase 2 in cardiac myocytes? |
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Increased Ca++ conductance |
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What causes final repolarization during phase 3 in cardiac myocytes? |
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Efflux of K+ exceeds the influx of Ca++ |
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The resting potential during phase 4 in cardiac myocytes is determined chiefly by what? |
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Which refractory period is absolute? |
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Effective refractory period |
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When does the effective refractory period occur? |
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During phases 0, 1, and part of 3 |
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What causes the effective refractory period? |
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Inactivation of voltage gated Na+ channels |
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What is required to elicit an action potential during a relative refractory period? |
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What causes a relative refractory period |
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All Na+ have not been completely reactivated |
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Effective refractory periods protect the heart by preventing what? |
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Voltage gated channels participating in phase 0 depolarization of non-pacemaker cardiac APs describes what? |
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What maintains resting membrane potential in phase 4, and permits K+ outflow at highly negative potential in cardiac cells? |
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Inward rectifier (Iir or Ikr) K+ channels |
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What contributes to phase 1 by transiently permiting K+ outflow at positive membrane potential? |
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Transient outward (Ito) K+ channels |
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What contributes to phase 3 repolarization of cardiac action potentials and permits K+ outflow? |
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Delayed rectifier (Ikr) K+ channels |
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What effect do acetycholine and adenosine have on cardiac myocyte action potentials? |
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G-protein coupled receptors hyperpolarizes membrane during phase 4 and shortens phase 2 |
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What voltage-gated channels provide a slow inward, long lasting current, and are responsible for phase 2 non-pacemaker cardiac APs? |
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The unstable resting potentials of autorhythmic pacemaker cells are called what? |
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What do pacemaker cells use for the upstroke of the action potential during phase 0 |
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When does the ionic current upstroke occur in pacemaker potentials? |
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When does the ionic current repolarization occur in pacemaker potentials?
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When does the ionic current slow (spontaneous) depolarization occur in pacemaker potentials?
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Slow depolarization during phase 4 of paemaker potentials occurs due to the opening of what? |
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Funny current (If) Na+ channels |
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When do funny current (If) Na+ channels open and close? |
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During hyperpolarization (-60mV) and depolarization (-20mV) |
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As the pacemaker potential becomes more positive, what channels begin to open? |
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What opens in the latter part of phase 4, casuing a small increase in Ca++ |
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Inactivation of voltage gated Ca++ channels and opening of voltage gated delayed K+ channels occurs during what phase of a pacemaker potential? |
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What term refers to the relative refractory period in pacemaker cells extending beyond phase 3? |
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Post-repolarization refractoriness |
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What are the effects of post-repolarization refractoriness in pacemaker cells? |
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Recovery of full excitability is much slower than in fast-response AP, leads to conduction blocks |
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Slow Na+ channels (If) acting in pacemaker potentials are also known as what? |
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Delayed rectifier (Ikr) potassium channels are active during what phase of pacemaker potential? |
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Phase 3 of reporlarization of cardiac action potentials |
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Are ATP-sensitive (Ik, ATP) open or closed during a pacemaker potential when ATP decreases? |
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What effect do protein coupled, Ach-activaed potassium channels (Ik, Ach) have on pacemaker potentials? |
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Slows pacemaker potential via hyperpolarization during phase 4 |
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How do L-type (ICa-L) calcium channels modulate pacemaker potentials? |
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Creates slow, inward, long-lasting current important in vascular smooth muscle contraction |
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What phase are L-type (ICa-L) calcium channels active during non-pacemaker cardiac action potentials?
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What phase are L-type (ICa-L) calcium channels active during pacemaker potentials of SA and AV nodal cells? |
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T-type (ICa-T) calcium channels are associated with what type of current in pacemaker potentials? |
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In what phase areT-type (ICa-T) calcium channels active during pacemaker potentials in SA and AV nodal cells? |
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What is the order of conduction of electrical impulses? |
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A normal heart rate falls between what range? |
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The vagus nerve has projections on what part of the heart? |
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Sympathetic nerve fibers inenrvate what parts of the heart? |
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Primarily cardiac muscle, very little pacemaker cells |
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Sympathetic (NE) neurons have what effect on the heart? |
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Stimulation, positive chronotropic, dromotropic, and ionotropic effects |
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Parasympathetic (Ach) neurons have what effect on the heart contraction? |
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Inhibition via negative chronotropic, dromotropic, and ionotropic effects |
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