Atrioventricular Node | Anatomy - Britannica

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• effect of pacemaker
  • In pacemaker

    …patch of conductive tissue, the atrioventricular node, initiating a second discharge along an assembly of conductive fibres called the bundle of His, which induces the contraction of the ventricles. When electrical conduction through the atrioventricular node or bundle of His is interrupted, the condition is called heart block. An artificial…

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• circulatory system
  • In cardiovascular disease: Determinants of cardiac rhythm

    …from the atria to the atrioventricular node and bundle of His (known as the atrioventricular junctional tissue), through the bundle branches and Purkinje fibres (known as the ventricular conduction system), and into the ventricular muscle cells that ultimately generate cardiac output. The conduction system in the atria is poorly defined…

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• heartbeat
  • In heart

    …controlled by impulses from the atrioventricular, or A-V, node located at the junction of the two atria. Following contraction, the ventricles relax, and pressure within them falls. Blood again flows into the atria, and an impulse from the S-A starts the cycle over again. This process is called the cardiac…

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