Name: Shania Puspasari 177

Exercise 6: Cardiovascular Physiology: Activity 2: Examining the Effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Lab Report
Pre-lab Quiz Results
You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly.
1. The effect of the parasympathetic nervous system on the heart is to
You correctly answered: a. decrease the heart rate.
2. The branch of the autonomic nervous system that dominates during exercise is
You correctly answered: b. the sympathetic branch.
3. Parasympathetic stimulation reaches the heart through
You correctly answered: d. vagus nerves, which are cranial nerves.
4. The usual pacemaker of the heart
You correctly answered: c. is the sinoatrial node.

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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question: What do you think will happen if you apply multiple stimuli to the heart by indirectly stimulating the vagus
nerve?
Your answer : c. The heart rate will decrease and the heart will stop.
Stop & Think Questions:
1. Watch the contractile activity from the frog heart on the oscilloscope.
Enter the number of ventricular contractions per minute (from the heart rate display) in the field below and then click
Submit Data to record your answer in the lab report.
You answered: 61 beats/min
The vagus nerve carries
You correctly answered: a. signals that decrease the heart rate.
3. Enter the number of ventricular contractions per minute (from the heart rate display) in the field below and then click
Submit Data to record your answer in the lab report.
You answered: 61 beats/min
The response that resumed the heartbeat after the vagus nerve stimulation is called
You correctly answered: b. vagal escape.
Experiment Data:

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Post-lab Quiz Results

You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly.
1. Extreme vagus nerve stimulation affects the heart by
You correctly answered: a. stopping the heart completely.
2. Vagal escape probably involves
You correctly answered: c. sympathetic reflexes.
3. Research shows that, in the absence of neural and hormonal influences, the SA node generates action potentials at a
frequency of approximately 100 times per minute. However, the resting heart rate is approximately 70 beats per minute,
which suggests that
You correctly answered: b. the parasympathetic nervous system has more control over heart rate.
4. The SA (sinoatrial) node in the human heart is located
You correctly answered: c. in the right atrium

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Review Sheet Results

1. Explain the effect that extreme vagus nerve stimulation had on the heart. How well did the results compare with your
prediction?
Your answer:
HR jantung akan melambat dan lama-kelamaan jantung akan berhenti sesuai dengan prediksi
2. Explain two ways that the heart can overcome excessive vagal stimulation.
Your answer:
yang pertama ada sympathetic reflex dan inisiasi serat Purkinje
3. Describe how the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together to regulate heart rate.
Your answer:
Sympathetic nervous system akan membuat heart rate lebih cepat sedangkan parasympathetic nervous system akan
membuat heart rate lebih lambat
4. What do you think would happen to the heart rate if the vagus nerve was cut?
Your answer:
heart rate akan meningkat

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