What Is a Chronotropic Factor

question 71

Multiple Choice

What is a chronotropic factor?

• A) Anything that changes the heart rate
• B) The cardiac accelerator center that uses sympathetic neurons to stimulate the SA and AV nodes to speed up the heart rate
• C) The cardiac inhibitory center that uses parasympathetic neurons of the vagus nerve to keep the SA node at 70-80 beats/minute
• D) All of the answers are correct.

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