Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. How do the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems regulate the functions of heart and vasculature? 2. What factors affect the differential sympathetic…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. What physical properties of blood vessels and blood determine hemodynamics, and how are they defined by Poiseuille's law? 2. How is arterial…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. How does the action potential contribute to excitability and contraction in heart muscle? 2. What is automaticity, and how does it differ…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. How does the arrangement of heart and vessels enable unidirectional flow of well-oxygenated blood to the body? 2. What is the advantage…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. Describe the organization of smooth muscle in various tissues, and how it meets the demands of each tissue 2. Discuss the mechanisms…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. Describe the organization of cardiac muscle and how it meets the demands of the organ. 2. Describe the molecular mechanisms involved in…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. Describe the organization of skeletal muscle, including the structural features/proteins within the skeletal muscle fiber that link the contractile elements to the…
Learning Objectives Objectives Heading Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. What are the similarities and differences in the general organizations of the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems? 2. What are the…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. What is the basic layering pattern of the neocortex, and how do cortical inputs and outputs align with this layering pattern? What…
Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: 1. What is a motor neuron, and how are α and γ motor neurons different? 2. What is a motor unit? How does…