A motor neuron‚ a nerve ending that is attached to a muscle fiber in Petzold’s huge bicep‚ sends a message to contract. This message goes to the neuromuscular junction‚ which is the connection between the actual nerve fiber and muscle fiber. As the message to contract reaches the terminals a neurotransmitter‚ a chemical messenger for the body‚ is released into the gap between the terminal end‚ and the sarcolemma and motor end plate called the synaptic cleft. The particular neurotransmitter is called
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A muscle is a group of cells called fibers‚ and are generally quite big. One muscle fiber has a large amount of myofibrils‚ which are muscle proteins in the shape of cylinders. These myofibrils contain two different types of filaments‚ which run along the axis of the fiber in hexagonal patterns. The two types of filaments are thick and thin filaments. Every thick filament is surrounded by six thin filaments. Both thick and thin filaments are attached to a structure called the Z-line. The Z-line runs
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Background Information Muscles in the human body can be classified into three different types- cardiac‚ smooth and skeletal muscles. The skeletal muscles are the muscles that can be controlled voluntarily‚ in things such walking and picking things up. The skeletal muscles are made up of bundles of muscle fibres (which are also known as myofibrils‚ as can be seen below). Each of the muscle fibres contain many sarcomeres‚ which is the most basic form of striated muscle tissue- they consist of two
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Industrial Revolution was another one of these extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilizations." In other words‚ the lives of many people changed from day time consuming work to fast paced machine made products. It first began in England during the 1700s and caused an increase in population. The reasons behind why the Industrial Revolution began was because of all the excess in iron‚ coal and cloth. Due to the coal‚ the steam-engine was invented to transport more goods across England faster
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April 2013 Muscle Growth DR. PAUL D. THOMPSON‚ a 60 year old marathon runner and chief of cardiology at Hartford Hospital‚ stood in front of a medical audience recently and began his talk with a story about himself. Hes had been lifting weights since he was 12 years old. Dr. Thompson is now a small and wiry with not a bulging muscle on him. He was speculated that he must have a genetic inability to build muscles‚ no matter how hard he works at it. But are his muscles healthy? Muscle researchers
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GKE1 Task 4 During the time period of 1780-1850 the United States and Great Britain were part of the Industrial Revolution. This revolution was a time of many changes with technology and scientific advancements. Many changes happened during the revolution that changed the way people worked‚ lived and survived. The Industrial Revolution included many changes to production of goods and materials. More technology-advanced equipment was able to change the way food‚ textiles‚ steel and chemicals
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Skeletal Muscle Cell There are millions of different types of cells in the world. They are located everywhere. Some are more known than others. The skeletal muscle cell was studied by many scientist but two important scientist are Alexander Mauro and Bernard Katz. They discovered a lot about thee skeletal muscle cell. The skeletal muscle cell is located everywhere in the body. Skeletal muscle cells are attached to bones by tendons as well in some areas the skin. Skeletal muscle cells are
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Cassidy Lessig Activity 1 The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period 1. 1. Define the terms skeletal muscle fiber‚ motor unit‚ skeletal muscle twitch‚ electrical stimulus‚ and latent period 2. What .is the role of acetylcholine in a skeletal muscle contraction? Skeletal muscle fiber-Skeletal muscle fibers are the individual cells that are bound together in fascicles. Many fascicles are bound together to make a muscle Motor unit-A motor unit consists of a motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers in
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Muscle and joint actions both affect the performance of a discus-athlete. Various types of joint actions and muscular actions can take place once when the movement is executed by the athlete. As an example‚ a discus-thrower usually activates the horizontal abduction and the horizontal adduction during the preparation or execution phases of his/her throw. The ground contact of the discus-thrower is very important as it keeps the thrower’s center of gravity station within his/her strongest point of
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The series of events prompting muscle contraction is started some place in the central nervous system‚ either as willful action from the brain or as reflex action from the spinal cord. Beginning with depolarization at the neuromuscular junction‚ the depolarizing impulse discharges acetylcholine from the nerve ending. Which then diffuses over the neuromuscular junction (a chemical synapse formed by the contact between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber). At the motor end plate‚ the acetylcholine joins
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