Jimmy's Heart And Respiratory Rate Case Study

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1.What is responsible for raising Jimmy’s heart and respiratory rate and stimulating sweating just before the race? Because just before the race, he was feeling nervous and had stress from anticipation. With strong emotions the Medulla can involve the homeostatic control of heart rate and blood pressure. This caused his heart rate and also the respiratory rate to increase. This is due to the breathing center responses to a variety of nervous and chemical signals and adjusts the rate and depth of breathing to make changing demand of the body. And with the increased heart and respiratory rate sweating allows the body to maintain normal body temperature.

2.Why is the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system active just before the

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