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The medulla oblongata in the brain stem sends a signal down the spinal cord to the sinoatrial (SA) node of the heart to induce contraction. The wave of contraction spread across the heart muscle (which acts partially as both nerve and muscle) to pump blood throughout the chambers.

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Why is there a change is heart beat as man exercises?

Exercise works the muscles and increases their demand for oxygen in the blood. The heart must pump harder to get more blood to the muscles to meet this extra demand. The body knows it must pump the heart harder for several reasons. Firstly, the brain tells the heart that it is exercising, and so is likely to need more oxygen. Secondly, special sensory nerves can detect subtle changes in the blood, like low oxygen and acidity, that stimulates the heart.


Each time the heart beats what does it do to blood-?

It simply keeps it circulating throughout the body. Your heart is the one muscle that works all the time and keeps you alive. Your mind and your heart basically depend on each other. The mind tells the heart when to beat, and the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the mind. But really all the heart does is allow blood circulation through your body. Best to eat healthy to avoid disturbances in its work, which are usually lethal. (Life threatening.)


What do you call a machine that tells what your heart rate is. In hospitals that have a straight line when person is dead?

A Heart rate monitor.


When does the nervous system tells the body to decrease its heart rate?

When the heart rate is too high, e.g. after exercise when you start to rest.


A student wants to perform an investigation to determine the heart rate of a rabbit The teacher tells her the heart rate should be about 100 beats per minute How could this information affect the in?

a. it could introduce bias

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What tells you that the heart muscles keeps moving?

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What tells you that the heart muscles keeps moving whether you are awake or asleep?

For one thing, you're still alive when you wake up. Obviously you can't observe yourself when you sleep but if someone else were to, they'd see that you still have a pulse and are still breathing.


What tells you that the muscle keeps moving?

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What tells you that the eye muscles are moving their own?

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What is the most important muscle in the human body?

The heart is a muscle and in fact the most important


What tells you that your heart muscle keeps moving?

A few things: 1. That you are still alive after a while. Your heart sustains you by pumping oxygenated blood throughout your body, and removing deoxygenated blood to the lungs. 2. If you put your fingers at certain vessel points around your body you can feel your pulse - blood coursing through your blood vessels. 3. You can feel your heart pounding, either with or without placing your hands against your ribcage.


What tells muscles to move?

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What are the release dates for My Heart Tells Me - 1944?

My Heart Tells Me - 1944 was released on: USA: 1944


How are involuntary and voluntary different?

Voluntary muscles chose to be moved and your will. For example your pectoral muscles and or your biceps. You can flex them and move them to your control by giving in nerve signals from your brain to that muscle. Involuntary muscles have automatic neurological control. Example would be the heart, you don't think about it but it still beats, and if you do exercise your brain automatically tells your heart to beat faster to pump more blood into your body.


Do you use muscles to think?

Its pretty obvious, and your brain think not your muscles and your brain tells your muscles what to do so no you don't use muscles to think.


How are voluntary and involuntary muscles different?

Voluntary muscles chose to be moved and your will. For example your pectoral muscles and or your biceps. You can flex them and move them to your control by giving in nerve signals from your brain to that muscle. Involuntary muscles have automatic neurological control. Example would be the heart, you don't think about it but it still beats, and if you do exercise your brain automatically tells your heart to beat faster to pump more blood into your body.


Which part of our body tells our heart to beat?

The heart itself tells the heart to beat. It contains a small cluster of nerves that act as a biological "pacemaker".