SHEET EXERCISE 2 Skeletal Muscle Physiology NAME: Jasmine Young LAB TIME/DATE: 1. Define each of the following terms: • motor unit - A motor unit consists of a motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates. • twitch - Skeletal Muscle twitch is the mechanical response to a single action potential. It has three phases known as the latent‚ contraction‚ and relaxation phase. • threshold - the threshold is the minimal stimulus needed to cause a depolarization of the muscle plasma membrane (sarcolemma
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Muscle Fatigue Monira Begum How muscles work and get the energy they need to work. Muscles need energy to work and move. (1) Their main source of energy is glucose. Glucose is made of a number of different types of carbohydrates (usually sugar) as well as milk and fruits. Glucose turns into other chemicals such as water and carbon dioxide which releases energy. (2)Your muscles get warm when using or burning energy. Glucose is sent to muscles through red blood cells; this is how muscles get
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Gluteals are the group of muscles comprising of your buttocks. Out the four muscles in your buttocks‚ there are only 3 groups of muscle that can be found on your buttocks. These muscles are gluteus maximus‚ medius and minimus. The fourth group which is the smallest one is the tenor fasciae latae muscles that can be found in the anterior area of the body. Functioning together‚ the gluteal muscles handle most of the motions of the upper leg‚ which includes rotation of the thigh‚ and abduction and turning
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Muscle fatigue occurs when a muscle has a diminished ability to continue to produce force‚ usually occurring due to extensive use of those muscles‚ such as when performing extraneous activity. On a molecular level‚ there are a number of things that happen that prevent the muscle from performing more action‚ ultimately to prevent any damage from being afflicted on the muscles cells. One particular effect that most people are likely familiar
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Moral Muscle can be defined as pushing ourselves to do more than the minimum in our moral life. Moral Muscle is not just having physical strength but metal strength. The phrase Moral Muscle is a metaphor in which shows a type of strength someone obtains mentally. Someone who exercises his or her moral muscles has an mindset to do the right thing. Someone is considered to have moral strength when they restrict themselves from doing bad things and in place of that commit good thing. Moral strength
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REPORT Activity 2: Twitch Contractions and Summation PREDICTIONS Effect of Muscle Fiber Length on Contraction 1. As muscle fiber length increases: contraction force increases‚ becoming maximum at an optimal length‚ then decreasing at longer lengths. Effect of Stimulation Frequency on Contraction 2. As the frequency of stimulation increases‚ the force of contraction: increases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Measurement of Threshold Stimulus 1. Dependent Variable: contraction force. 2. Independent
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Unit 2: Physiology Lab Skeletal Muscle Physiology Student Name: Lab Summary Worksheet Directions: Read the following directions before starting the lab. Before starting each lab Activity‚ read the Overview and Introduction. This information will help you understand what you are doing in the lab. You do not have to pdf your lab – the only thing that you will submit for grading is this lab report. You will have to answer the Stop and Think Questions that are embedded in the lab instructions
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Building muscles may be the purpose of many people and for doing so‚ they usually start with an intense weight training. What most of them don’t know‚ is that for building muscles‚ the balance is only 20% weight training and 80% a proper diet. Therefore‚ for those who are interested in building muscles‚ these article will provide information on how they have to introduce in their daily routine a strict diet that includes proteins‚ carbohydrates‚ or healthy fats. Proteins Muscles need proteins
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coarsely controlled muscles. Explain how motor units act to establish muscle tone. What are the functions of muscle tone? Motor Unit- One motor neuron and all the muscles it innervates. Each muscle will respond to one motor nerve which contains axons that can have up to 100’s of neurons that branch into terminals that form NMJ with ONE fiber. When a motor neuron sends an action potential‚ it will cause all of the connected muscle fibers to contract. The number of muscle fibers per motor unit
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I will be talking about exercise 3‚ the skeletal muscle lab. I will be going over the contraction of a frog’s gastrocnemius muscle. An overview of muscle contraction is based on the organization of the cytoskeletal proteins. The contraction is the shortening of a sarcomere‚ which is caused by the thick myosin filaments sliding past the thin actin filaments. The actual filaments aren’t getting shorter just sliding past each other. The contraction is caused by physical interaction of the myosin heads
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