In this lab report 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
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PHYSIOEX 9‚ ACTIVITY #3 Review Questions ACTIVITY #1 1. Explain why increasing extracellular K+ reduces the net diffusion of K+ out the neuron through the K+ leak channels? 2. Explain why increasing extracellular K+ causes the membrane potential to change to a less negative value. How well did the results compare with your predictions? 3. Explain why a change in extracellular Na+ did not significantly alter the membrane potential in the resting neuron? 4. Discuss the relative permeability
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PHYSIOLOGICAL & MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SKELETAL MUSCLE USING FROG GASTROCNEMIUS AIM The purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate the physiological as well as mechanical properties of skeletal muscle using the gastrocnemius muscle of a frog by exploring five different investigations namely the single twitch‚ the graded response‚ the relationship between muscle length and tension‚ muscle tetanus‚ and muscle fatigue. These individual experiments aim to explore the way muscles can contract when an electrical
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contraction in skeletal muscle is caused by specialized intracellular thin and thick filaments‚ actin and myosin‚ sliding past each other. Contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscle bring about body movements. These body movements are voluntary and facilitated by the somatic nervous system. Near contact between somatic motor neurons and the muscle fibers are referred to as neuromuscular junctions. It is at the neuromuscular junctions that neurons are able to transmit a signal to the muscle fibers causing
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EXERCISE 10: Acid-Base Balance Student Name: Landy Jean-Baptiste Student ID: 4304736 Student instructions: Follow the step-by-step instructions for this exercise found in your lab manual and record your answers in the spaces below. You are only required to perform Activity 1 & 2 in this simulation. Submit this completed document by the assignment due date found in the Syllabus. Rename this document to include your first and last name prior to submitting‚ e.g. Exercise10_JohnSmith.doc
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REVIEW SHEET EXERCISE 1 Cell Transport Mechanisms and Permeability 1. Match each of the definitions in Column A with the appropriate term in Column B. |Column A |Column B | |__E__ term used to describe a solution that has a lower |a. diffusion | |concentration of solutes compared to another solution |b. facilitated diffusion
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Introduction Muscle is one of the four main types of tissue‚ and is primarily involved in movement. There are three types of muscle tissue: skeletal‚ smooth‚ and cardiac. Skeletal muscle was investigated in this lab. Skeletal muscle is composed of two filaments called actin and myosin‚ which run parallel to each other. Actin has a protein that run along it called tropomyosin‚ that prevents actin from binding to it‚ unless calcium is bound to a part of the tropomyosin called troponin. Sets of actin
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Name: Carola Geitner Exercise 10: Acid-Base Balance: Activity 2: Rebreathing Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. In cases of acidosis‚ the pH of the blood is You correctly answered: c. less than 7.35. 2. Carbon dioxide and water form You correctly answered: a. carbonic acid (a weak acid). 3. Which of the following is true of respiratory acidosis? You correctly answered: c. The amount of carbon dioxide in the blood is greater than normal
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Muscles are responsible for all conscious and unconscious movement. It is how we move and react to an environment. There are three types of muscles in the body include the skeletal muscle‚ smooth muscle‚ and the cardiac muscle. Whether you are running‚ walking‚ breathing‚ eating‚ sleeping‚ or typing it all involves some sort of muscle action. Muscle cells that shape‚ form‚ and outline the whole human skeleton is called a muscle fibers. There are two types of muscle fibers: Type I (slow-twitching
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REVIEW SHEET EXERCISE 2 Skeletal Muscle Physiology NAME: LAB TIME/DATE: Electrical Stimulation 1. Name each phase of a typical muscle twitch‚ and‚ on the following line‚ describe what is happening in each phase. a. b. c. 2. In Activity 2‚ how long was the latent period? __________ msec Describe the chemical changes that are occurring during this period. The Graded Muscle Response to Increased Stimulus Intensity 3. From Activity 3‚ describe the effect of increasing
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