Physio Cardio Lab Report Answers
Activity 1 Questions:
1. Explain how the body establishes a pressure gradient for fluid flow.
Pressure gradient is the flow rate of a liquid through a pipe. This is directly proportional to the difference between the pressures at the two ends of the pipe and inversely proportional to the pip's resistance. The pressure gradient is directly dependent upon blood vessel radius which essentially controls blood flow. The bigger the blood vessel radius, the more blood flow or fluid flow. The smaller blood vessel radius, the lesson blood or fluid flow.
2. Explain the effect that the flow tube radius change had on flow rate. How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Flow tube radius
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Activity 3 Questions:
1. Which is more likely to occur, a change in blood vessel radius or a change in blood vessel length?
A change in blood vessel radius is more like to occur because blood vessel length only increases as we grow into maturity and in adulthood blood vessel lengths stay constant. The only possibility of blood vessel length changing is when we gain or lose weight. Through the process of vasodilation, or the smoothing of the blood vessel muscle, you can change the radius of the vessel more frequently.
2. Explain the effect that the change in blood vessel length had on flow rate. How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Blood vessel length, when increased causes more friction or resistance thus making it more difficult for blood to flow through the vessel. In summation, increasing blood vessel length inversely effects flow rate but decreasing flow rate. My prediction was that an increase in blood vessel length would inversely effect blood flow. As evidenced in this experiment, with the increase of the blood vessel length, there was a decrease in blood flow.
3. Explain why you think blood vessel radius can have a larger effect on the body that changes in blood vessel length.
In the blood flow equation (as seen to the right), blood flow is directly proportional to the fourth power of vessel radius. Dramatic changes happen in regards to blood flow because of small changes in blood vessel
Deacreased vascular resistance and increased arterial pressure causes an increase in blood flow. This is important to supply organs with oxygen. 4. Restate your predictions that were correct and give data from your experiment that support them. Restate your predictions that were not correct and correct them with supporting data from your experiment. MAP would increase due to increase in activity, SVR would decrease due to decrease in resistance, CO would increase due to more force of blood being expelled.
29. If all the 280 million molecules of hemoglobin contained in RBCs were free in the plasma,
4) Compare and contrast oscillations in heart rate observed at rest (Activity 1), during exercise and recovery exercise (Activity 2). Is the relative magnitude of the oscillations the same? Provide a physiological explanation in your answer.
What impact does the illness have on the blood’s ability to clot? Include the role of vitamin K and the specific clotting proteins affected. Also discuss platelet production. Describe the test that is typically run to test the blood’s clotting ability.
6. Restate your predictions that were correct and give the data from your experiment that supports them. Restate your predictions
Estimate the maximum responses (Emax) and EC50 values for phenylephrine with the two types of arterial ring. Put this data in a single, self-explanatory table.
Q6a. You were instructed to use an inviscid flow model. Justify the use of that model for this calculation. (2 marks)
8. From the flow net in Figure 3, the flow rate is calculated as shown
>>Increasing the afferent arteriole radius pushed the glomerular pressure, the glomerular filtration rate, and the volume of urine to be higher than the baseline data. Increasing the afferent arteriole radius increased the glomerular filtration rate.
Poiseuille’s law states the volume in a tube is directly proportional to pressure difference between both ends of the tube and inversely related to the length. Poiseuille’s law was discovered by Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille in 1840 (Poiseuille’s). Jean Louis used his experiments to find the smooth, laminar flow in circular tubing (Jean-Louis). His findings can be described as the flow of blood through the body and bronchial smooth muscle.
Arteries - the pressure exerted on the blood from the heart; the fact that there's always more blood behind pushing blood forwards; the elastic recoil of the arteries
There are sensors in the walls of the arteries that detect blood pressure which in turn sends signals to the heart and arterioles, the veins, and kidneys that cause them to increase or decrease blood pressure as needed. The heart can speed up and/or eject blood more forcefully with each contraction. Veins narrow to return more blood for pumping. Arterioles narrow to increase resistance to blood flow.
The second compensatory mechanism is increased preload via renal conservation of sodium and water that is caused by the activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. Increased blood volume means improved venturical filling and thus causing increased stroke volume, which increases the pressure exerted on the artery walls. Prolong increase stroke volume can overwork the heart and lead to hypertrophy. In addition, the increased extracellular volume expansion can lead to dilutional hypoproteinaemia, exacerbate third
reports the amount of force exerted by the blood into the arteries during ventricular contraction.
The hydrostatic pressure (or blood pressure) and osmotic pressure (water pressure) are responsible for balancing and creating the movement of fluid across the capillary wall.