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The SA (sinoatrial) node is a cluster of cells in the upper part of the right atrium (aka the right upper chamber of the heart).

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Where are the cells that make up the sinoatrial node or pacemarker located?

The cells that make up the sinoatrial (SA) node, which acts as the heart's natural pacemaker, are located in the right atrium of the heart. The SA node generates electrical impulses that initiate each heartbeat by causing the heart muscle to contract.


What node is located in the posterior wall of the right atrium near the entrance of the superior vena cava?

The sinoatrial (SA) node, also known as the pacemaker of the heart, is located in the posterior wall of the right atrium near the entrance of the superior vena cava. It is responsible for initiating the electrical impulses that regulate the heart's rhythm.


What Special tissue in right atrium that regulates heartbeat?

The sinoatrial (SA) node, also known as the pacemaker of the heart, is a special tissue located in the right atrium that acts as the natural pacemaker for the heart. It generates electrical impulses that regulate the heartbeat by initiating each heartbeat and setting the rhythm for the heart.


What cardiac structure generates the action potentials that spread throughout the heart generating the cardiac contraction and the heartbeats?

In a normally functioning heart, the SA (sinoatrial) node is the pacemaker of the heart, but if it is nonfunctional then the AV (atrioventricular) node would take over. If it isn't working either then the Bundle of His can trigger contractions, and if it isn't working the Perkinje fibers can trigger contractions. Each progressive one has a slower intrinsic heart rate.


Each heart contraction begins in a small group of cardiac muscle cells called?

The sinoatrial node is the small group of cardiac muscles that initiates each heart contraction.

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Te sinoatrial is located where?

The sinoatrial node is impulse generating tissue in the (R) atrium of the heart. It is the natural pacemaker of the heart.


Where are the cells that make up the sinoatrial node or pacemarker located?

The cells that make up the sinoatrial (SA) node, which acts as the heart's natural pacemaker, are located in the right atrium of the heart. The SA node generates electrical impulses that initiate each heartbeat by causing the heart muscle to contract.


Where does the spark that begins your heartbeat originate?

The normal heartbeat begins as an electrical impulse in the sino-atrial node (or SA node). The SA node is called the pacemaker of the heart. It is located in the R atrium, just below the entrance of the superior vena cava.


What is the structure that begins the heartbeat?

The sinoatrial(SA) node located in the right atrium.


What first causes the sinoatrial node to begin in a fetus' heart?

The sinoatrial node is a part of the electrical system of the heart. The development of the sinoatrial node is from the sinus horn myocardium in fetal development.


What causes heart beat?

cancer and exercise


What is the common name for the sinoatrial node?

which of the following applies to the sinoatrial node? a)it is a mass of nerve cells b)it produces important enzymes c)it generates autorhythmic impulses to the contractthe heart d)it contains both bicuspid and tricuspid valves


The node that directly controls contraction of the atria is?

Sinoatrial node


What node triggers and impulse?

The sinoatrial node triggers an impulse


Is AV NODE known as pacemaker?

No, it is the SAN (sinoatrial node)


The sinoatrial node is the heart's?

... pacemaker.


What is the peacemaker of the myocardium?

sinoatrial node