How the Circulatory System Works (eBook)

Robert E. Mehler (Autor)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-95110-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book includes 10 lectures in a light, entertaining style, with each 'lecture' building on the previous one - making it easy for the reader to comprehend the vastly complicated functions of the circulatory system.

The length of the text has intentionally been kept short; it is neither exhaustively complete nor over-simplified. It is enriched by details about basic biologic mechanisms and clever ways nature has solved a problem or achieved a result.

Robert E. Mehler is the author of How the Circulatory System Works, published by Wiley.

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This book includes 10 lectures in a light, entertaining style, with each "e;lecture"e; building on the previous one - making it easy for the reader to comprehend the vastly complicated functions of the circulatory system. The length of the text has intentionally been kept short; it is neither exhaustively complete nor over-simplified. It is enriched by details about basic biologic mechanisms and clever ways nature has solved a problem or achieved a result.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Title 5
CONTENTS 9
How to Use This Book 11
Lecture 1. An Overview of the Circulatory System 13
Lecture 2. The Heart 17
REVIEW 17
FIRST, CELLS 17
SOME SHALL PASS 18
ADDED CHARGE 19
THE IMPORTANCE OF (BEING) NERNST 20
POLAR(ITY) EXPEDITIONS 23
KUDOS TO CALCIUM 25
BRIDGING AND SLIDING 25
FROM CELLS TO TISSUE 27
FROM TISSUES TO ORGAN 28
GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT 30
THE CARDIAC CYCLE 32
LISTENING 33
WORK, WORK, WORK 33
INSIDERS 34
OUTSIDERS 35
Lecture 3. The Arteries 37
REVIEW 37
ON THE HYDRAULIC FILTER 37
REGULATING AND DISTRIBUTING 38
VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS -HARMONIC TONES 39
UPS AND DOWNS OF CALCIUM 41
G WHIZZES 42
AGENTS OF CHANGE 43
ARTERIOLE, REGULATE THYSELF 43
RECEIVING ORDERS 45
Humors 46
Reflexes -- Ovemrc(h)ing Principles 46
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED BLOOD PRESSURE? 47
Lecture 4. The Capillaries 49
REVIEW 49
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS 49
FAIR EXCHANGES 50
ESPECIAL CELLS 52
SPECIALITY #1: VASOACTIVITIES 52
SPECIALITY #2: ANGIOGENESIS 52
SPECIALITY #3: WHITE BLOOD CELL TRAFFICKING 53
Lecture 5. The Veins 55
REVIEW 55
CAPACITY 55
THE VALUE OF VENOUS VALVES 55
Lecture 6. The Blood 57
REVIEW 57
BLOOD BIOLOGIC 57
TAKING OXYGEN 57
RETURNING CARBON DIOXIDE 59
STASIS 59
BLOOD MECHANICAL 61
Lecture 7. Special Circulations 63
REVIEW 63
FETAL CIRCULATION-- VERY SPECIAL 63
THE BRAIN -- TOP PRIORITY 65
THE HEART -- SELF-SERVICE 66
SKIN -- INTERFACING 66
LIVER -- TWICE TENDED 66
KIDNEY -- FINE FILTERING 67
LUNG -- PROPER PRESSURE 67
Lecture 8. Coupling Heart and Vessels 69
REVIEW 69
WHENCE CARDIAC OUTPUT? 69
CENTRAL INDEED 70
STABILITY, SOUGHT AND FOUND 71
IS THIS VENTRICLE NECESSARY? 71
RATES 72
HEMORRHAGE 72
Lecture 9. Diseases 75
REVIEW 75
HEART FAILURE 75
HYPERTENSION 80
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 81
Lecture 10. Exercise: The Final Kick 85
REVIEW 85
Glossary 87
Index 91

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Schlagworte: Another • author • Book • Cardiovascular Disease • circulatory • clear • Clever • Functions • intentionally • Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen • Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen • Krankenpflege • Lecture • length • light • mechanisms • Medical Science • Medical Sciences Special Topics • Medizin • neither exhaustively • Nor • nursing • Nursing Special Topics • oversimplified • Physiology • presented • previous • Reader • Short • Spezialthemen Krankenpflege • Spezialthemen Medizin • Story • succeeds • System • vastly complicated
• ISBN-10: 1-118-95110-7 / 1118951107
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-95110-1 / 9781118951101