FROG MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY 2) What was the smallest voltage required to produce max contraction? What proportion of the muscle fibers in the muscle do you think were contracting to produce this maximal response? Muscle fibers act in response to isolated stimuli in an all or none fashion. However‚ a muscle organ‚ such as the gastrocnemius muscle‚ is composed of many individual muscle fibers. It is known that all of the fibers in a muscle do not have the same threshold and that a stimulus applied to
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Recruitment and Contractions Name: Instructor: Ruth Peterson Date: 07/17/2014 PREDICTIONS 1. When the arm goes from resting to flexing‚ the amplitude and frequency of sEMG spikes will: increase 2. During flexion‚ the amplitude and frequency of sEMG spikes will _be greater_____ during extension. 3. Recruitment of motor units will be greatest when the load is: 5 pounds MATERIALS AND METHODS Comparison of motor unit activation during muscle tone and concentric and eccentric isotonic
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animals: connective‚ muscle‚ nervous‚ and epithelial. We are going to go into muscle tissue. The cells of muscle tissues are called fibers. There are three types of muscle tissue and they are skeletal‚ cardiac‚ and smooth. All types can go though hypertrophy (enlargement or overgrowth of an organ or part of the body due to the increased size of the constituent cells). Muscle fibers contract due to the interaction of the contractile proteins‚ actin and myosin. Muscle contraction generates contractile
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Lab 3 – Skeletal Muscle Physiology Introduction Skeletal muscles are composed of hundreds to thousands of individual cells‚ each doing their share of work in the production of force. As their name suggests‚ skeletal muscles move the skeleton. Skeletal muscles are remarkable machines; while allowing us the manual dexterity to create magnificent works of art‚ they are also capable of generating the brute force needed to lift a 100-lb. sack of concrete. When a skeletal muscle from an experimental
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Epimysium- covers the entire muscle Perimysium- covers..? Endomysium- covers the individual muscle fibers Sarcomere- smallest contractile element of muscle fiber‚ extends from z-line to z-line Myofilament- responsible for contraction Striated- the color variations on the muscle fiber. Has to do with the amount of protein and the way it reflects light. Myosin- globular protein Bulb like heads come in contact with the active sites on actin Active sites are not exposed when in the resting position
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Skeletal Muscle Lab Introduction: Motor neurons and muscle fibers are the building blocks of motor units and where they intersect is called the neuromuscular junciton. The region where the flattened end of a motor neuron transmits neural impulses to a muscle is the motor end-plate. The end plate potentials depolarizes skeletal muscle fibers caused by neurotransmitters binding to the postsynaptic membrane in the neuromuscular junction. The process of contraction of the muscle cell is called excitation-contraction
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excitation-contraction coupling mechanism between skeletal and cardiac muscles. Excitation-contraction coupling is the combination of the electrical and mechanical events in the muscle fibres and is related by the release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. (Silverthorn‚ 2007) In the skeletal muscle‚ action potential in the nerves is generated when the somatic motor neurons releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh)‚ at the neuromuscular junction. This initiates muscle action potential
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Muscle Tissue 1. How is muscle tissue categorized? Muscle tissue is categorized by its shape‚ the number of nuclei‚ and the mechanism of stimulation. 2. a. Click the Smooth Muscle Tissue. Identify each of the following: Nucleus----- Smooth Fiber Muscle------------------ b. Describe smooth muscle control (voluntary or involuntary). Involuntary c. Name some smooth muscle functions (click the “Tissue Locations” button). Smooth
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your scantron. 1. A motor unit refers to a. a single muscle fiber plus all of the motor neurons that innervate it b. all of the motor neurons supplying a single muscle c. *a single motor neuron plus all the muscle fibers it innervates d. a pair of antagonistic muscles e. all of the muscles that affect the movement of any given joint 2. Which of the following is NOT associated with the thin filaments in skeletal muscle: a. tropomyosin b. *titin c. actin d. troponin
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The heart performed the pump action by a sequence of alternating contraction and relaxation of the heart muscle‚ and the term used for contraction is systole‚ and the term used for relaxation is diastole. I am explaining this because it is very important terms‚ and involve five stages: 1. The vagus nerve stimulate the sinoatrial node or SAN‚ which is the pacemaker of the heart. Is a small area in the upper wall of the Right atrium‚ close to the vena cava; the fibers of the of the SAN contract 70
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