Muscle Fatigue Coursework What Is Muscle Fatigue and How Does It Occur? Muscle fatigue is a condition in which muscles cannot exert their normal force. Muscle fatigue occurs when the muscles cannot exert normal force‚ or when more effort than normal is required to achieve a desired level of force. There are a number of causes for muscle fatigue‚ ranging from exercise-induced fatigue to genetic conditions which lead to muscle weakness. Doctors and researchers have conducted a number of studies
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Frog Skeletal Muscle The aim of this experiment is to explore the basic physiological principles of skeletal muscle using the isolated frog (Rana pipiens or Xenopus laevis) gastrocnemius muscle. Students will dissect a double-pithed frog. Then‚ they will connect the muscle to the Force Transducer to measure twitch recruitment‚ effect of stretch‚ muscle summation‚ muscle tetanus‚ and muscle fatigue. Written by staff of ADInstruments. Experiment Contents 1. Instructor’s Reference (this
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move through a system of muscles‚ bones‚ tendons‚ cartilage and ligaments. Each past of the system is operated by the nervous system‚ which has its main control center in the brain‚ this creates voluntary movement such as kicking a ball. The body moves through different muscle contractions‚ these contractions are
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------------------------ --GENERALIZED VERTEBRATE MUSCULATURE AS EXEMPLFIED BY THE DOGFISH The musculature of the dogfish is considered under the heads of somatic‚ fin‚ branchial and hypocranchial musculature. I.PARIETAL or SOMATIC MUSCLES The Parietal muscles which completely covers the whole body of dogfish consists of: 1. Myotomes - zigzag series which is separated from one another by: 2. Myosepta - white connective partitions 3. Lateral septum - white longitudinal line in the middle part
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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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Organization of Muscle Tissue Laszlo Vass‚ Ed.D. Version 42-0016-00-01 Lab Report Assistant This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions‚ diagrams if needed‚ and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by providing this information in an editable file which can be sent to an instructor. Purpose:
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Laboratory – Muscle Physiology A. MUSCLE TONUS Observations‚ Report and Conclusion: A. Define muscle tonus and give its importance * Muscle tonus refers to a state of slight muscular contraction maintained by synchronous impulses of low frequency‚ discharged by the spinal motor neurons. * Reflex in nature. * Muscle tonus is a small amount of tension in the muscle due to weak‚ involuntary contractions of its motor units. Muscle tonus is important in a sense that it governs the
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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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and unfamiliar exercise‚ particularly which involves eccentric muscle actions can cause muscle damage and lead to delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS)‚ which may impair performance. This is due to the high force features of eccentric contraction (Starbuck & Eston‚ 2011). It can also cause muscle shortening‚ swelling and loss of strength in the muscles. Injuries commonly occur during eccentric loading of the muscle; that is‚ when the muscle is contracting while it is lengthening. (LaStayo‚ et al.‚ 2003)
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causes the contraction or shortening of skeletal muscle. Muscles contract and shorten and as a result of this they are responsible for the movement of the body. In order to have movement the body needs ligaments‚ tendons muscles‚ joints‚ bones and the neurotransmitter or message sent for movement. Skeletal muscles that produce movement occurs at any given joint‚ only one of the articulating bones will move. The point of articulation‚ or where the muscles and the bones connect‚ is known as a joint.
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