Tubular Structures of the Body
This is the location fo the greatest fraction of airway resistance in a healthy lung.
What are the large Bronchi?
Name the two enzymes important in regulating smooth muscle contraction
What are Myosin Light chain Kinase and Myosin Phosphotase (would take Calmodulin)
C.O. = ??? / T.P.R.
What is M.A.P. or Mean Arterial Pressure?
The key component of cartilage
What is Type II collagen?
Name the 4 layers of tissue that comprise the wall of the GI system
What are: Adventitia (or serosa), Muscularis, Submucosa, Mucosa (or Epithelial)?
Name the neurotransmitter involved in transducing the excitation signal from a motorneuron to a skeletal muscle fiber.
Name the two types of valves in the heart
What are semilunar and atrioventricular
What is contained in the axial skeleton
What are the skull, vertebral column (including the sacrum), and thoracic cage (rib cage)?
Name the 4 Starling Forces that determine net filtration through capillaries
What are: Capillary Hydrostatic Pressure, Interstitial Hydrostatic Pressure, Plasma Colloid Osmotic Pressure and Interstitial Colloid Osmotic Pressure.
The Force-Velocity relationship is derived from which force measurement method
What is isotonic contraction measurement?
What is the defining difference between arteries and veins
What is the direction of blood flow (arteries take blood away from the heart and veins bring blood back to the heart)?
The function of osteoblasts
What is to form new bone by secreting osteoid (bone matrix)?
The name of the receptor that ADH binds to on the tubular epithelium of the nephron to promote water reabsorption.
What is the V2 receptor, a G-Protein coupled receptor
This protein serves as the channel that allows Ca2+ to flow from one cardiomyocyte to another
What is Connexin (specifically connexin 43)?
Name the two ways sympathetic nervous stimulation leads to increased CO
What are: 1) by increasing heart rate via stimulation of the sinoatrial node and 2) by increasing stroke volume by simulating ventrilcular myocytes to increase their contraction force.
2 differences between tendons and ligaments
What are:
1) tendons connect muscle to bone while ligaments connect bone to bone
2) ligaments contain elastin