Circulation

Types of pumps

Open and closed circulation

• Similarities and differences

The mammalian heart

Muscle types

• Electrical properties of heart muscle
• pacemaker types
• pacemaker potentials
• impulse transmission and fibrillation
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• Flow and pressure changes during a heart beat
• Work done by heart
• cardiac output

Other heart types

• elasmobranchs
• teleosts
• amphibia
• reptiles
• mammalian fetus
• birds

Hemodynamics

• laminar and turbulent flow of fluids in tubes
• viscosity of blood
• compliance of blood vessels-veins and arteries
• capillaries-control of blood flow
• Fluid drainage-Lymph formation and return

Cardiovascular control by CNS

• baroreceptors
• effect of gravity and body position
• chemoreceptors

Integration of responses

• effect of exercise
• ischemic response

Reading

Eckert Animal Physiology-Mechanisms and Adaptations, 5th edition. Randall, Burggren and French. Chapter 12.

Schmidt Nielsen Chapter 3.