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Mammals are highly metabolically active, so they use a circulatory system to make sure that blood is transported around the body efficiently by the heart. Heart rate is controlled by stimulation of the cardiac muscle. Waves of excitation originating in the pass through tissue in the bundle of His, causing contraction of the and then the ventricles, followed by the relaxation of all the cardiac muscles, called .
is a protein used to transport oxygen in the red blood cells of animals. Oxygen is released more readily from it in the presence of high levels of carbon dioxide because forms which reduces the pH of the blood. This causes a change in the tertiary structure of the protein, so oxygen dissociates more rapidly due to .
Oxygenated blood leaves the heart through the via the aorta and travels around the body, then returns to the heart as deoxygenated blood via . prevent blood flowing backwards under lower pressure.
is produced when plasma is forced out of capillaries due to the high of blood at the arterial end, and most of it returns at the venous end with a higher concentration of carbon dioxide and wastes. Some of it is drained via the system.