Circulatory Systems

  • Exchange of Materials
    • Animal cells exchange material across their cell membrane
    • Fuels for energy
    • Nutrients
    • Oxygen
    • Waster
    • 1-cell organism
    • Diffusion
  • Overcoming the limits of diffusion
    • Diffusion is not adequate for moving material across more than 1-cell barrier
  • In Circulation
    • What needs to be transported
    • Nutrients and fuels
      • From digestive system
    • Respiratory gases
      • O2 and CO2 to and from gas exchange systems
      • Lungs
      • Gills
    • Intracellular waste
      • Waste products from cells
      • Water
      • Salts
      • Nitrogenous wastes

Urea

  • Protective agents

    • Immune defenses
    • White blood cells
    • Antibodies
    • Blood clotting agents
    • Regulatory molecules
    • Hormones
  • Circulatory Systems

    • All animals have:
    • Circulatory fluid
      • Blood
    • Tubes
      • Blood vessels
    • Muscular pump
      • Heart
  • Open Circulatory System

    • Taxonomy
    • Invertebrates
      • Insects
      • Arthropods
      • Mollusks
    • Structure
    • No separation between blood and interstitial fluid
      • Hemolymph

  • Closed Circulatory System

    • Taxonomy
    • Invertebrates
      • Earthworms
      • Squid
      • Octopuses
    • Vertebrates
    • Structure
    • Blood confined to vessels and separate from interstitial fluid
      • 1 or more hearts
      • Large vessels to smaller vessels
      • Material diffuses between blood vessels and interstitial fluid

  • Adaptations in a Closed System

    • Number of heart chambers differs
  • Evolution of a 4-chambered Heart

    • Selective forces
    • Increased body size
      • Protection from predation
      • Bigger body = bigger stomach for herbivores
    • Endothermy
      • Can colonize more habitats
    • Flight
      • Decrease population and increase prey capture
    • Effect of higher metabolic rate
    • Greater need for energy, fuels, oxygen, and waste removal
      • Endothermic animals need 10x more energy
      • Need to deliver 10x fuel and oxygen to cells
  • Vertebrate Cardiovascular System

    • Chambered heart
    • Atrium
      • Receive blood
    • Ventricle
      • Pump blood out
    • Blood vessels
      • Arteries
      • Carry blood away from heart
      • Veins
      • Return blood to heart
      • Cappilarries
      • Thin wall
      • Exchange/diffusion

Capillary beds = networks of capillaries

  • Arteries
    • Built for high pressure pump
    • Thicker walls
    • Provide strength for high pressure pumping of blood
    • Narrow diameter
    • Elasticity
    • Elastic recoil helps maintain blood pressure even when the heart relaxes
  • Veins
    • Built for low pressure flow
    • Thinner-walled
    • Wider diameter
    • Blood travels back to the heart at a low velocity and pressure
    • Lower pressure
      • Distant from heart
      • Blood must flow by skeletal muscle contractions when we move
      • Squeeze blood through veins
    • Valves
      • In larger veins, there are one-way valves that allow blood to flow only toward the heart
  • Capillaries
    • Built for exchange
    • Very thin walls
    • Lack 2 outer wall layers
    • Only endothelium
      • Enhances exchange across capillaries
    • Diffusion
      • Exchange between blood and cells
  • Lymphatic System
    • Parallel circulatory system
    • Transports white blood cells
      • Defending against infection
    • Collects interstitial fluid and returns blood
      • Maintains volume and protein concentration of blood
      • Drains into circulatory system near the junction of the vena cava and right atrium
  • Heart Valves
    • 4 valves in the heart
    • Flaps of connective tissue
    • Prevent backflow
    • Atrioventricular valve
    • Between atrium and ventricle
    • Keeps blood from flowing back into atria when ventricles contract
    • Semilunar valves
    • Between ventricle and arteries
    • Prevent backflow from arteries into ventricles while they are relaxing
  • Heart Sounds
    • Closing of valves
    • “Lub”
      • Recoil of blood against close atrioventricular valves
    • “Dub”
      • Recoil of blood against the semilunar valves
    • Heart murmur
    • Defect in valves cause hissing sound when a stream of blood squirts backward through the valve
  • Cardiac Cycle
    • 1 complete sequence of pumping
    • Heart contracts and pumps
    • Heart relaxes and chamber fill
    • Contraction phase
      • Systole
      • Ventricles pump blood out
    • Relaxation phase
      • Diastole
      • Atria refill with blood

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