Action potentials in pacemaker cells | Circulatory system physiology | NCLEX-RN | Khan Academy

Find out how the pacemaker cells use the movement of sodium, calcium, and potassium to get your heart beating! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. Created by Rishi Desai.
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At what point does the sodium and calcium leave and at what point does the potassium enter? This example model would lead to a swelling of the cells with Na and Ca ions and the cell would be depleted of K within a few cycles...

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This is a very simplified version for non med people

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Potassium reenters the cells by the Na/K pump which is ALWAYS working to keep the potassium levels nice and high in the cells.

[@bhellar123]

0 stage (action potential) is because of Ca+ coming in(,not bc Na+ coming In as in cardiac myocyte) stage 1 and2 is not present in pacemaker cell because pacemaker do not have platue stage 3 is repolarization because K+ out leaving -ve inside stage 4 is activation of If Na+channel (because of repolarization by K+ out ward) now this Na+ wil depolarize to threshold (not action potential) to open Ca+ channel these Ca+ entry (or stage one again ) is action potentional (during whole phase ions are actively transporated to their orignal concentratioout and inside by Na K atpase pump and contratranprrt

[@alimajed8843]

first of all, what cause the action potential is ( sodium and calcium ) , first there is ( slow sodium channels ) that make the potential reaches " threshold" and after that a channels call ( sodium-calcium channels ) activated , thus causing action potential ( both the sodium and calcium ) ( source ; Guyton, Textbook of physiology chapter 10, 117)

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[@brittanymontero303]

This video, as well as the one on cardiac myocytes have been very helpful to me. However, in my Anatomy & Physiology course there are some pieces to the pacemaker cell action potential that were not in this video which I feel would be important to add. Terms: Funny Channels T-type channels L-type channels Early drift Late drift These pieces were shown in the video but not named.

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So, there is a difference between action potentials in pacemaker cells and action potentials in cardiac myocytes?? Or was it just an example to use different ions coming into or going out the cells?

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Gülay Yalcin there's a difference. Pacemaker cells are special modified cardiac myocytes.

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Gülay Yalcin what I've read that is pacemaker cells unlike cardiac myocytes do not need any stimuli to generate Action potential.

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They are different. There´s another video of Khan academy about the pacemaker action potential, check it out.

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What about the Bachmann's bundle and the internodal tracks? are they made up of pacemaker cells? If so, does that mean that those cells could fire spontaneous action potentials if the SA node, AV node and purkinje systems are not working? if they're not made out of pacemaker cells, then are they just made out of normal cardiac muscle cells?

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the 4, 0, 3 numbering system is used because in 'non pacemakercells' the 0 represents Depolarisation and the the 3 represents repolarisation and those two numbers represent the same events in 'pacemaker cells'. Thats why they chose those specific numbers.

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Thank you very much! You have a knack for explaining things well. My only comment would be on your use of the word "salt" synonymously with sodium. Chemically speaking salt would mean an anion and cation, and if you were using it to mean "table salt" it would include chloride as well, not just sodium.

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The purkinje fibers are on both sides of the heart in the middle - on the septum, the wall that separates the right side of the heart from the left.

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[@SCPVIDEOPRODUCTION]

I don't understand how this can work. If Na is flowing into the cell and then Ca flows into the cell and K flows out of the cell. All the electrolytes need to go back. K needs to get back in the cell, Na and Ca needs to move back out of the cell. The switching back of all the electrolytes is not talked about. How can we just start over if all the electrolytes are not in the correct area?

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excatly... it explains only one cycle

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Basically there are two kinds of K+ channels: rapid delayed rectifiers (IKr) and inwardly rectifying (IK1). IKr is the primary channel, so there's a net outward, positive current (making the inside of the cell more negative), and this is repolarization. IKr closes when the membrane potential is about -85 to -90 mV. BUT the IK1 keeps open throughout phase 4 (allowing K+ to return inside). The Na/Ca exchanger and Na/K pump also help to restore ion concentrations. So like, the Na/K pump is an ATPase that pumps both ions against their concentration gradient, which means it'll pump Na+ out & K+ in, thus returning everything to how it was!

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what about Na?

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The Na+ and K+ ions are "replaced" by Na/K ATP-ase which pumps 2 K+ ions into the cell for every 3 Na+ ions out of the cell and re-establishes these ion gradients. The Ca+ ions are also pumped out of the cell in a similar fashion. Bottom line- there are many ion channels and other membrane proteins at work. This is just a simplification of how "action potentials" work in the nodal cells.

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[@peternader603]

is the automaticity character due to inflow of Na as you said in the video or slow inward Ca currents ?

[@mnopyzstrife188]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_action_potential#Phase_4 I had the same question. Apparently, it's due to both. (Along with a decrease of Potassium exiting). "This pacemaker potential is predominantly due to increased inward current of sodium (Na+) through voltage-dependent channels, but also an increased inward calcium current and a slowly decreasing potassium outward current." I hope it helps :)

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Really good, doing my MBBS and our cardio lecturer is shocking. Would you be able to explain next time how calcium exits the cell? is the potassium sodium pump the slow "leaky" sodium channels that trigger threshold or are they different?

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