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Ventilation
Movement of air in and out of the lungs
Respiration
Actual gas exchange
Tasks of the Respiratory System (3)
1) pH regulation (CO2<-->HCO3)
2) Thermoregulation
3) Protection from disease
When you breathe too much, your blood pH is....
- Alkaline (>7).
- Expelling lots of CO2, so the system is shifted to the right heavily, which increases blood pH
When you breathe too little, your blood pH is...
- Acidosis. (<7).
- Don't breathe a lot, there's no need to shift the system to CO2, so there's an acid buildup (H+ and HCO3-)
How is Carbon Dioxide Transported? (IMPORTANT EQUATION)
H + HCO3- <-> H2CO3 <-> CO2 + H2O
Conduction Zone
- ONLY Venhilation (moving gas in and out)
- Trachea
Respiratory Zone
- Gas Exchange
- Aveoli
Aveoli
Tiny sacs 1 cell thick, have thin walls, covered with capillaries, gas exchange takes place here
Surfactant
- Aveoli would normally collapse because of surface tension
- Surfactant reduces Surface Tension and prevents collapsed lungs
Expiration
- Air OUT
- Decreased Lung Volume
- Relaxation of Diaphram
++++ pressure compared to outside so air can exit
Inspiration
- Diaphram contracts
- Increase volume of chest cavity
- NEGATIVE pressure in lungs causes air to low in and enter lungs/aveoli
- ACTIVE process
Cavities of Lungs (3)
- Parietal Pleura
- Pleural Space
- Visceral Pleura

Together, they keep lungs inflated and keep lungs from collapsing.
Pulmonary Edema
- Increase in BP in capillaries, results in fluid in to lungs (normaly prevented by lymphatic vessels)
How is Respiration Regulated?
- Medulla in the brainstem (it's involuntary)
- pH (breathe too much=alkadosis, breathe too little=acidosis)
- Irritants (coughing)
Keratin
- When skin cells die, the skin is thickened by the production of this protein
- Helps make us waterproof
Melanin
Pigment that absorbs UV light and decreases damage incurred
Purposes of the Skin (3)
- Pathogen protection
- Decreases excess water loss
- Temperature Regulation
Testes
Male
- Outside body, to maintain optimal temperature for spermatogenesis
- Secretes testosterone
Seminal Vessicle
- Secrete 60% of semen volume to ejaculatory duct
- Help nourish sperm
Prostate Gland
Allow sperm to coagulate
Spermatogenesis
- Synthesis of sperm (2n to n)
- Begins at puberty and continues until death
- Produces 4 spermatids (which mature into spermatozoa)
Spermatogonium
- Mitotically reproduce before meiosis, replicate DNA
- Gonium = "GONNA" be sperm.
Men
Where does 1st Meiotic Division occur?
- Between PRIMARY Spermatocyte and the formation of the SECONDARY spermatocyte
Men
Where does the 2nd Meiotic Division occur?
- Between the SECONDARY spermatocyte and the formation of spermatics (non-mature recombinants)
Spermatid
Non-mature recombinant, matures into spermatozoa
Female
When does Oogenesis begin?
- Prenatally
- Develop from Oogonia to PRIMARY oocyte and then stop before Anaphase I
Female
At Puberty, what happens?
- All the "eggs" have been arrested at primary oocytes
- MEIOSIS 1 happens right as woman menustrates, produces polar body
Female
When does Meiosis II Happen?
- After fertilization, we release second polar body and form zygote
Follicle
Also known as a secondary oocyte
Ovarian Cycle (3)
- Follicular
- Ovulatory
- Luteal

Describes what happens to the actual egg during a woman's monthly cycle
Follicular Phase
- Primary Follicle matures
- Estrogen produced
Ovulatory Phase
- Secondary Ooyte released
- Triggered by **LH SURGE**
- Corpus Luteum formed
Corpus Luteum
- Remnants of follicle
- Secretes progesterone and estrogen at high levels (FSH/LH low)
Luteal Phase
- Full formation of corpus luteum
Uterine Cycle
- Menustration
- Proliferative
- Secretory

Describes what happens to the uterine wall during a females cycle
Menustration
- Triggered by DEGENERATION of corpus luteum (what happens when fertilization doesn't happen)
- Bleeding
- Endomitrium sloughed off
Proliferative
- Follicle is producing estrogen
- Proliferation of new endomitrium
Secretory Phase
- After ovulation
- The egg is chilling, and so is the corpus luteum, which is secreting estrogen and progesterone
- Endomitrium still developing