Heart valves

... what i would hear . So far i'm up . to Listen for the rythem of the heart beat. A normal heartbeat makes a lub-dup sound. This sound is created when the heart tissue vibrates , it is pushed against the heart valves and bounces back. In the case of stress, stress can raise heartbeat ...

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... in the absence of complement, it also impedes colonization of damaged heart valves, perhaps by masking adhesins. http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/staph.html

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... the circulatory system. Thanks in advance! --- 1. In general, one-way valves are found in lymph vessels, veins, and the heart muscle. There wouldn't be any in the artery because blood is continually flowing away ...

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... which of course is a bacterium, not virus. Unless I am mistaken, heart attack can be caused by 'molecular minicry', where the antibodies produced to attack the S. aureus infection also attack the heart valves. Is this similar?

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Good question. Why doesn't the heart have only ventricles? Well, your answer is correct. the ventricles contract for ... in the atria and keep it there. when the ventricles relax, the atrio-ventricular valves open and the blood flows according to gravity. the atria also contract, but ...

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