2) Through what regulatory mechanisms can a transplanted heart, which does not any innervation, adjust cardiac output to meet the changing needs of the body post-

transplant? Explain mechanisms for both increasing and decreasing cardiac output that

wouldn't involve innervation of the heart.

answer; i believe the correct answer is (anemia);

the oxygenated blood then leaves the lungs through pulmonary veins, which return it to the left heart, completing the pulmonary cycle. this blood then enters the left atrium, which pumps it through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. from the left ventricle, the blood passes through the aortic valve to the aorta.

deoxygenated blood leaves through the right ventricle through the pulmonary artery. from the right atrium, the blood is pumped through the tricuspid valve (or right atrioventricular valve), into the right ventricle.