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Exercise 6: Cardiovascular Physiology: Activity 1: Investigating the Refractory Period of Cardiac Muscle Lab Report

Pre-lab Quiz Results

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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question 1: When you increase the frequency of the stimulation, what do you think will happen to the amplitude
(height) of the ventricular systole wave?
Pada saat mengganti frekuensi stimulasi , amplitudo tidak berubah

Predict Question 2: If you deliver multiple stimuli (20 stimuli per second) to the heart, what do you think will happen?
Baik tetanus maupun gelombang tidak akan terjadi

Stop & Think Questions:

1. Watch the contractile activity from the frog heart on the oscilloscope.

Enter the number of ventricular contractions per minute (from the heart rate display) in the field below and then click
Submit Data to record your answer in the lab report.
You answered: 62 beats/min

Which of the following statements about the contractile activity is true?

The smaller waves represent the contraction of the atria.

During which portion of the cardiac muscle contraction is it possible to induce an extrasystole?
during relaxation

Experiment Data:

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Post-lab Quiz Results
You scored 50% by answering 2 out of 4 questions correctly.

1. The amplitude of the ventricular systole did not change with the more frequent stimulation because
a new contraction could not begin until the relaxation phase

2. Which of the following do you think contribute to the inability of cardiac muscle to be tetanized?You
the long refractory period of the cardiac action potential

3. Given the function of the heart, why is it important that cardiac muscle cannot reach tetanus?
The ventricles must contract and relax fully with each beat to pump blood.

4. An extrasystole corresponds to
an extra ventricular contraction.

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Review Sheet Results
1. Explain why the larger waves seen on the oscilloscope represent the ventricular contraction.
Hal ini disebabkan karena otot ventrikel lebih tebal dari atrium dan berkontraksi lebih kuat untuk memompa darah pada
sirkulasi sistemik dan pulmonalis

2. Explain why the amplitude of the wave did not change when you increased the frequency of the stimulation. (Hint: relate
your response to the refractory period of the cardiac action potential.) How well did the results compare with your
prediction?
Hal ini disebabkan otot jantung memiliki refrakter absolut yang lama sehingga kontraksi berikutnya tidak dapat dimulai
sampai relaksasi terjadi , hal ini berhubungan dengan periode refrakter .

3. Why is it only possible to induce an extrasystole during relaxation?

Karena otot jantung dapat berkontraksi kembali setelah terjadi fase repolarisasi , hal ini untuk mencegah terjadinya tetanus

4. Explain why wave summation and tetanus are not possible in cardiac muscle tissue. How well did the results compare
with your prediction?
Wave summation dan tetanus tidak dapat terjadi pada otot jantung karena otot jantuk memiliki periode refrakter yang lama .

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