Format:
1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816614725
,
0816614733
,
0816655758
,
9780816614721
,
9780816614738
,
9780816655755
Content:
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1 Once Around the Circulation""; ""Systemic and Pulmonary Circulation""; ""Transport""; ""Blood""; ""Hemostasis""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 2 Electrical Activity of the Heart""; ""Ionic Basis for Electrical Activity""; ""Membrane Potential of Cardiac Cells""; ""Molecular Basis of Cation Movements Across Cardiac Cell Membranes""; ""Refractory Period""; ""Ionic Basis for the Cardiac Membrane Potential""; ""Membrane Changes in Ventricular Cells""; ""Membrane Changes in Nodal Cells""; ""Propagation of Electrical Activity
Content:
""Conduction of the Action Potential""""The Electrocardiogram""; ""Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram""; ""Change in Mass""; ""Abnormal Dipoles""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 3 The Heart as a Pump""; ""Molecular Basis of Cardiac Muscle Contraction""; ""Excitation-Contraction Coupling""; ""The Contraction of Isolated Cardiac Muscle""; ""Length-Tension Relationship""; ""Preload and Afterload""; ""Force-Velocity Relationship""; ""Contractility""; ""The Cardiac Cycle""; ""Cardiac Output""; ""Factors Influencing Cardiac Output""; ""Summary of Determinants of Cardiac Output
Content:
""Measurement of Cardiac Output""""Energetics of Cardiac Function""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 4 Systemic Circulation""; ""Pressure-Flow Relationship""; ""Mean Arterial Pressure""; ""PuIse Pressure""; ""Normal Range of Arterial Pressure""; ""Determinants of Blood Pressure""; ""Measurement of Arterial Pressure""; ""Total Peripheral Resistance""; ""Blood Volume""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 5 Neural and Hormonal Control of the Circulation""; ""Autonomic Control""; ""Functional Anatomy""; ""Neurotransmitters""; ""Norepinephrine""; ""Adrenergic Receptors
Content:
""Alpha-adrenergic Receptors""""Beta-adrenergic Receptors""; ""Acetylcholine""; ""CNS Areas Involved in Control of the Cardiovascular System""; ""Spinal""; ""Medullary""; ""Cortical""; ""Neurotransmitters in the CNS""; ""Reflex Behavior of the Cardiovascular System""; ""Baroreceptor Reflex""; ""Volume Receptor Reflex""; ""Chemoreceptor Reflex""; ""Other Reflexes""; ""Corticohypothalamic Cardiovascular Patterns""; ""Hormonal Control System""; ""Adrenal Medulla""; ""Vasopressin""; ""Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System""; ""Erythropoietin""; ""Atrial Natriuretic Peptide
Content:
""Suggested Readings""""Chapter 6 Regulation of Flow and Exchange""; ""Functional Anatomy""; ""Endothelial Cells""; ""Vascular Smooth Muscle""; ""Exchange Across the Capillary Wall""; ""Diffusional Exchange""; ""Capillary Filtration and Reabsorption""; ""The Lymphatic System""; ""Edema""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 7 Regulation of Blood Flow""; ""The Pulmonary Circulation""; ""Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow""; ""Cutaneous Blood Flow""; ""Cerebral Blood Flow""; ""Splanchnic Blood Flow""; ""Renal Blood Flow""; ""Coronary Blood Flow""; ""Suggested Readings
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sparks, Harvey V., 1938- Essentials of cardiovascular physiology Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1987
Language:
English
