NAME Rachel Brockhuis LAB TIME/DATE _______________________ Exercise 2 Skeletal Muscle Physiology The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period 1. Define the terms skeletal muscle fiber‚ motor unit‚ skeletal muscle twitch‚ electrical stimulus‚ and latent period. Motor unit- single α-motor neuron and all of the corresponding muscle fibers it innervates; all of these fibers will be of the same type Skeletal muscle fiber- long and narrow cells that often span the entire length of a muscle Skeletal muscle
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Excitation Contraction Coupling Process The sequence of events that converts action potentials in a muscle fiber to a contraction is know as excitation contraction coupling. In order for a skeletal muscle fiber to contract‚ it has to get a signal from the nervous system. The part of the nervous system that it gets a signal from is called a motor neuron. An electoral signal‚ called an action potential travels down the axon and to the axon terminal. At the end of the motor neuron are structures
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Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 3: The Effect of Stimulus Frequency on Skeletal Muscle Contraction Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 25% by answering 1 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. During a single twitch of a skeletal muscle Your answer : a. calcium is not released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Correct answer: b. maximal force is never achieved. 2. When a skeletal muscle is repetitively stimulated‚ twitches can overlap each other and result in a stronger muscle
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Nervous and Endocrine System Work Sheet View the following case studies on the Anatomy and Physiology place website: Chapter 7 –Nervous System; Chapter 8- Special Senses Chapter 9 – Endocrine Try to answer the questions in the case study and be sure to check the correct answers! However you will not need to submit your answers to these questions‚ only the questions on the worksheet ( see below). Submit your answers as a word document to the Week 4 dropbox 1. Define a reflex and list
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Laboratory Exercise # 2 Skeletal Muscle Mechanics 1. What is a skeletal muscle fiber? Present (and explain) a diagram that demonstrates the interaction between actin and myosin during contraction. What is the role of calcium‚ troponin‚ and tropomyosin? 2. Present the basic anatomy of a motor neuron input into skeletal muscle. How is each muscle fiber innervated? What is a motor unit? What are the advantages/disadvantages of large and small motor units? What kinds of
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Stimulus-Dependent Lab A motor unit is a motor neuron and the muscle fiber it controls. A whole muscle is made up of hundreds of motor units that are handled by different motor neurons that react at different levels of stimulation. The electric shock acts as an action potential by changing the membrane permeability allowing the sodium and potassium ions to pass through. At different levels of stimulation the motor neurons stimulate a motor unit and the more stimulation the more motor units become
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REVIEW SHEET EXERCISE 2 Skeletal Muscle Physiology NAME: Jasmine Young LAB TIME/DATE: 1. Define each of the following terms: • motor unit - A motor unit consists of a motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates. • twitch - Skeletal Muscle twitch is the mechanical response to a single 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
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Effects of Decerebration on Toad In Accordance to its Responses to Different Stimuli1 September _ 2013 ABSTRACT The brain is the most important part of an organism’s body. It is the one that receives all information from different stimuli and controls the movement of body parts. But for sudden stimuli that needs a quick response‚ spinal cord reflexes happened. The effect of decerebration on a toad (Bufo marinus) will cause its inability to move‚ but it still responded
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Depolarizing and nondepolarizing agents are both apart of the neuromuscular blockade group. Neuromuscular blockers work by impeding motor nerve impulses from passing to the skeletal muscles. The purpose of blocking these passes is to make the muscles weak or paralyzed in surgery. Neuromuscular blockers can be used in many surgical procedures‚ like inserting an endotracheal tube‚ by relaxing the jaw muscles. They are also useful for relaxing the diaphragm and intercostal muscles (responsible for respirations)
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Chapter 5 Describe tight junctions Consist of transmembrane cell-adheasion proteins around upper part of cell holding neighboring cells together. Identify the three types of muscle tissue * Cardiac * Smooth * Skeletal A muscle cell is also called a myocyte What type of tissues covers body surfaces‚ lines body cavities‚ forms the internal and external linings of many organs and constitutes most gland tissue? Epithelial By definition‚ adipose tissue is a type of connective tissue
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