Table of contents Preface Section 1: General Topics Chapter 1: Membrane Transport Chapter 2: Body Compartments Section II: Excitable tissue Chapter 1: lonic Equilibrium and Resting Membrane potential 35 Chapter 2: The Neuron Action Potential Chapter 3: Synaptic Transmission Section II: Peripheral Circulation Chapter 1: General Aspects of the Cardiovascular System 75 Chapter 2: Regulation of Blood Flow Section IV: Skeletal Muscle Chapter 1: Excitation-Contraction Coupling 135 Chapter 2: Skeletal Muscle Mechanics 143 Section v: Cardiac Muscle Chapter 1: Electrical Activity of the Heart Chapter 2: Heart Muscle Mechanics medical~ Tableof Contents Preface.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Section I: General Topics Chapter 1:MembraneTransport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter2: BodyCompartments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Section II: Excitable Tissue Chapter1:IonicEquilibriumandRestingMembranePotential.. . . . . . . . . . 35 Chapter2: TheNeuronActionPotential.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Chapter3: SynapticTransmission.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 SectionIII: Peripheral Circulation Chapter 1: GeneralAspectsof the CardiovascularSystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Chapter2: Regulationof BloodFlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 SectionIV:Skeletal Muscle Chapter 1:Excitation-ContractionCoupling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 2: SkeletalMuscleMechanics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Section V:Cardiac Muscle Chapter 1:ElectricalActivityoftheHeart. . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 167 Chapter2: HeartMuscleMechanics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 meClical v