of calcium channel blockers in Vascular smooth muscle cells and cardiac conduction cells
voltage gated calcium channels
manage electrical of cells by allowing the selective-diffusion of calcium ions in response to changes in cellular membrane potential
signalling
·
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activated
by membrane depolarization >
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less negative more positive -
depolarize and open channel
-
allows cast to enter cells down the concentration gradient- high concentration
extracellularly (outside the cell) so it moves In to the cell
2 hen the channel opens since its low inside gradient
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type (long lasting) calcium channels .
-> What calcium channel blockers target
cardiovascular diseases we look at this have a
longer action
>
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present in vascular smooth muscle and ventricular myocytes . Present in many cells .
cast is involved in the process of contraction of
·
responsible for excitation -
contraction
coupling in skeletal smooth and cardiac muscle
,
3 smooth muscle
· cardiac conduction tissue (sino-atrial and atrioventricular node
simplified cellular mechanism -
vascular smooth muscle
t - cells that surround the smooth muscles in arteries or the vein
so cart
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Cell
>
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if you stop calt going in it will stop the actin-myosin bridge and
activai
reduce or stop contraction
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> the pulling
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makes the muscle smaller
actin-myosin bridge
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lots of contraction
relaxation
pulsitthenesses
contraction
and they
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- since cells are smaller
, simplified cellular To pump
mechanism -
cardiac electrophysiology :
·
heart starts with an electrical
higher
- calt allows at pacemaker
signal a
current to go
Faster the heart
·
flows through past atria
Y lower cast allows
Y 7 slows
dowe current to
slower
go · slows down in AU node
allowing contraction
calcium channels to happen in the atria
overall slow HR
down
·
pushing blood into the ventricles
·
after a short time it allows the electricity
to come
rapidly so bundle branch
·
makes the ventricle muscle pump blood out
* conduction > how around the heart the aorta
electricity flows or pulmonary artery
-
· the current will stop in the top left corner here in the sinoatrial node
· causes a contraction of the atrium
· Then it pauses in AU node - allows blood to fill into the ventricles after a short delay
· The AU node current passes through allowing current to rapidly go across ventricle
· causes a fast contraction of blood out
Simplified cellular mechanism -
cardiac electrophysiology activities
is channel
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calcium
↳
I heart beat calcium channel blockers the cardiac
especially
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Selective ones
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decease the phase O
up slope
can
therefore prolonging the overall cycle
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>
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Y channel
impact
> cast
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goes in upstroke ↓ > therefore slowing down the HR
depending
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how longer time between
on each
each Cycle
active is
channel
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natural cycle in AU node and pacemaker cell due to range of different types of channels
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a
being
opened or closed . Allows the membrane
potential slowly drift from being hyper polarized to depolarized hitting a
threshold allowing cast to come in