5.7 First, when the atria contract, the ventricles are relaxed and filling with blood. The atrioventricular valves are open, and the semilunar valves are closed. Then, when the ventricles contract, the atrioventricular valves are closed, the semilunar valves are open, and the blood is pumped into the pulmonary trunk and aorta. These two working phases are called systole together. Last, when the heart is relaxed, both the atria and ventricles are filling with blood. The atrioventricular valves are open, and the semilunar valves are closed. This resting phase is called diastole. The SA node sends out a stimulus, which causes the atria to contract. When this stimulus reaches the AV node, it signals the ventricles to contract. Impulses pass down the two branches of the atrioventricular bundle to the Purkinje fibers, and thereafter, the ventricles contract. In this way, SA node and AV node regulate the rhythmical contractions of the heart.
5.10 There are two reasons why skeletal muscle contraction has an affect on venous flow but not arterial flow. One of them is the thickness of the vessel. Arterial wall is thicker than venous one so that it is relatively unlikely to be affected by skeletal muscles contraction. And the other is the existence of valves in the vessel. Skeletal muscle pump works as the valves don't allow the blood to flow backward, so it never works in arteries that has no valve even though they have some affects of skeletal muscles contraction.
5.13 At the arterial end of a capillary, the blood pressure is higher than the osmotic pressure; therefore, water tends to leave the bloodstream. At the venous end, at the same time, water tends to move adversely because the proportion of the two forces, the blood pressure and the osmotic pressure, get upside down. On the other hand, in the midsection, because the two forces essentially cancel each other, solutes, such as glucose or carbon dioxide, now diffuse according to their concentration gradients. Glucose diffuse out of the capillary as a nutrient that cells nearby need, and carbon dioxide diffuse into the capillary as a waste.
5.10 第三文
(誤)Arterial wall is thicker than venous one so that it is relatively unlikely to be affected by skeletal muscles contraction.
(正)Arterial wall is thicker than venous one, so that it is relatively unlikely to be affected by skeletal muscles contraction.
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