increases in voltage affect the amount of active force generated by the muscle? The force increased. What is the voltage beyond which there were no further increases in active force? Maximal voltage: ____8.5____ V Why is there a maximal voltage? What has happened to the muscle at this voltage? Keep in mind that the muscle we are working with consists of many individual muscle fibers. For the prevention of damage to the muscle. The muscle fibers cannot contract any further. An
Premium Muscle Skeletal muscle
Virtual lab 9 Activity 2: Determining the Latent Period 1. How long is the latent period? 2.78 msec. 2. What occurs in the muscle during this apparent lack of activity? Ca++ is being released from the sacroplasmic reticulum and filament movement is taking up slack. Activity 3: Investigating Graded Muscle Response to Increased Stimulus Intensity 1. Use your graph to answer and note that the dot in the graph turns red when you select that line in the table. What is the minimal‚ or threshold
Premium Muscular system Muscle contraction Orders of magnitude
Introduction: In this lab‚ I will study how muscles contract‚ what makes muscles contract‚ different types of muscle contraction‚ and learn about how resistance affects muscle contraction. I will define Key Terms that describe what will occur in the experiments; I will conduct an experiment for each Activity and provide all resulting Data as well as answer Questions from each Activity. I will then provide a short Summary for what I learned in each Activity. Key Terms: Recruitment (or Multiple
Free Muscle Muscular system Muscle contraction
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
Premium Muscle Skeletal muscle Myosin
properties of cardiac muscle on a cane toad’s (Bufo marinus) heart and the adaptive ability of the heart to produce a response when subject to different conditions of temperature‚ stretch on contractile force‚ substances of acetylcholine‚ adrenaline and atropine‚ and increased frequency of stimulus. Regarding Figure 1‚ the regular heartbeat and contraction force of the toad was identified to demonstrate the difference between atrial contractions and ventricular contractions in a normal environment
Premium Cardiac muscle Heart Acetylcholine
enzyme activity in skeletal muscle‚ particularly the activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). LDH is a glycolytic enzyme which converts pyruvate to lactate in the following equation: LDH Pyruvate+ NADH ------------ Lactate + NAD The reaction above can move in both directions‚ forward (favored by Type II skeletal muscle) and reverse (favored by Type I skeletal muscle and the heart). Enzyme
Premium Enzyme
tissue in a muscle. Epimysium (sheet of connective tissue that covers a muscle as a whole)‚ endomysium (delicate connective tissue membrane covering the highly specialized skeletal muscle fibers) ‚( perimysium (tough connective tissue surrounding fascicles) 2. Myofibrils are composed primarily of two protein filaments called _____________actin__________ and ___myosin_______________________. 3. What is a motor unit? Functional unit composed of a single motor neuron with the muscle cells it innervates
Premium Muscle Skeletal muscle Muscular system
Maya Bourgeois 10/26/14 09/08/14 “Notch1 and osteoblasts play role in bone cancer initiation” Baylor College of Medicine Glenna Picton Some molecular and cellular geneticists at the Baylor College of Medicine have discovered that Notch1‚ a gene that can decide cellular fate‚ can cause osteoblasts (cells that lead to bone formation) to become cancerous. They determined this data using a mouse model of osteogenic sarcoma‚ a deadly bone malignancy. Turns out that in mice
Premium Cancer
Paula Radcliffe Skeletal The long term effects of Paula’s skeletal system is that her bones will get stronger‚ this is due to the bones density increasing‚ and calcium increasing in the bones. Another effect is that her ligaments would become more flexible. This is due to the elasticity increasing‚ therefore reducing any risk of injury from a pulled/ripped ligament. The amount of synovial fluid she produces would also go up. This would help her‚ because synovial lubricates the
Premium Heart Blood Exercise physiology
Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology Worksheet Single Stimulus Activity 1: Identifying the Latent Period 1. How long is the latent period? 2.78 msec 2. Does the latent period change with different stimulus voltages?No Activity 2: Identifying the Threshold Voltage 1. What do you see in the Active Force display?I saw a very slight peak at .8 2. What is the threshold voltage? .8 V 3. How does the graph generated at the threshold voltage differ from the graphs generated
Premium Skeletal muscle Mass Muscle