LABORATORY REPORT Activity 4: Generation of Action Potentials Name: Instructor: Date: PREDICTIONS 1. Exceeding the threshold depolarization at the trigger zone DECREASES the likelihood of generation of action potential. 2. Action potential amplitude: DOES NOT CHANGE with distance 3. Increasing frequency of stimulation to the trigger zone: DOES NOT increase the production of action potentials. MATERIALS AND METHODS Experiment 1: Effect of Stimulus Strength on Action Potential Generation
Premium 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.) The threshold is the point at which sodium ions start to move into the cell (instead of out of the cell) to bring about the membrane depolarization. • treppe - the progressive increase in force generated when a muscle is stimulated at a sufficiently high frequency • summation - When a muscle is
Premium Neuromuscular junction Skeletal muscle Acetylcholine
Human Physiology Exam 2 Spring 2014 1. Neuroglial cells that regulate neurotransmitter metabolism and capillary permeability are: a. neurolemmacytes b. astrocytes c. oligodendrocytes d. neurons 2. The portion of the nervous system concerned with afferent input from skeletal muscle is: a. visceral sensory b. somatic motor c. somatosensory d. propriosensory 3 Light adaptation of the eye occurs due to: a .a decrease in the active photo pigment b. an increase in active photopigment c. a
Premium Brain Neuron Muscle
Define the resting membrane potential and its electrochemical basis. 4. List the different types of channels and indicate what causes each one to open. 5. In relation to an Action Potential – define the terms threshold‚ hyperpolarization‚ depolarization‚ repolarization and all-or-none-phenomenon. 6. Draw and label the structural components of the the NMJ and explain the events that happen when a nerve impulse reaches the NMJ. 7. What is meant by excitation-contraction coupling? 8. What
Premium Action potential Neuron Nervous system
it is formed in the central and peripheral nervous systems. 7. Classify neurons structurally and functionally. Membrane Potentials 8. Define resting membrane potential and describe its electrochemical basis. 9. Compare and contrast graded potentials and action potentials. 10. Explain how action potentials are generated and propagated along neurons. 11. Define absolute and relative refractory periods. 12. Define saltatory conduction and contrast it to conduction along
Premium Neuron Action potential
Contribution of Nav1.8 Sodium Channels to Action Potential Electrogenesis in DRG Neurons J Neurophysiol 86:629-640‚ 2001. ; You might find this additional info useful... This article cites 38 articles‚ 24 of which you can access for free at: http://jn.physiology.org/content/86/2/629.full#ref-list-1 This article has been cited by 68 other HighWire-hosted articles: http://jn.physiology.org/content/86/2/629#cited-by Updated information and services including high resolution figures‚ can be found at:
Premium Action potential
Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 1: The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 5 out of 5 questions correctly. 1. Skeletal muscles are connected to bones by You correctly answered: b. tendons. 2. Skeletal muscles are composed of hundreds to thousands of individual cells called You correctly answered: c. fibers. 3. The term motor unit refers to You correctly answered: c. one motor neuron and all of the skeletal muscle fibers
Premium Skeletal muscle Neuromuscular junction Acetylcholine
LABORATORY REPORT Activity: Action Potentials Name: Barbara Uthe Instructor: Catherine Rice Date: 08.17.2014 Predictions Exceeding threshold depolarization at the trigger zone______the likelihood of generation of an action potential. increases Action potential amplitude increases with distance Increasing frequency of stimulation to the trigger zone decreases number of action potentials Materials and Methods Experiment 1: Effect of Stimulus Strength on Action Potential
Premium Action potential Neuron
information). Action potentials generated by neural impulses are "all or nothing‚" meaning the signal reaches the threshold for communication or it doesn’t. No signal is stronger or weaker than another. Depolarization increase in positive charge inside the plasma membrane caused by a depolarizing graded potential causes increasing numbers of voltage- gated Na+ channels to open rapidly. The equilibrium potential for potassium is negative‚ so it wants the charge across the membrane to be negative. So‚
Premium Action potential Neuron
10/22/2012 Communication Along and Between Neurons (Ch.6) • Receptors receive stimuli‚ and convert them to nerve impulses • Alternating graded and all-or-none signals on the membrane of a single neuron • Graded potentials decay with distance (electrotonic conduction); longdistance transmission depend on transforming signals to APs • Typically‚ alternating electric (within neuron) and chemical signals (between neurons) • Postsynaptic potential affected by number and frequency of APs
Premium Action potential