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What image shows contraction of the atria?

What image shows contraction of the atria?-example-1
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It is image 1. There the pace maker is sending signals for atrium contraction.
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The right answer is The first image (the left one).

The contraction of the atrium is done with the help of the sinus node which synchronously emits a discharge which is diffused in the heart such is shown in the image 1.

The sinus node, or node of Keith and Flack (nodus sinuatrialis) is a set of cells located in the upper wall of the right atrium of the heart (right atrium), whose depolarization controls the normal heart rhythm, called "sinus rhythm" .

The depolarization of the action potential is conducted step by step in the cells of the right and left atria, accompanied by a contraction of the muscle fibers.

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