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    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 contraction

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    Anatomy- Skeletal Muscles

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    Muscle Test #1 Study Guide 1. What are the primary functions of muscles? What are skeletal muscles made of? Five Skeletal Muscle Functions 1.Produce movement of the skeleton •By pulling on tendons that then move bones 2.Maintain posture and body position 3.Support soft tissues •With the muscles of the abdominal wall and the pelvic floor 4.Guard entrances and exits •In the form of sphincters 5.Maintain body temperature •When contraction occurs‚ energy is used and converted to heat

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    Muscle Contraction Lab

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    for muscle contraction. Hypothesis: Based off the frog muscle immersed separately in Solution A of ATP and distilled water solution‚ Solution B of ATP with KCl in distilled water and MgCl2 in distilled water and solution C of KCl and MgCl2 in distilled water‚ I hypothesize that solution B of ATP with KCl in distilled water and MgCl2 in distilled water will cause the muscle to contract. Introduction: This lab consisted of discovering what solutions will cause a muscle to contract. A muscle contraction

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    Cardiac Muscle Contraction

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    an involuntary muscle‚ found solely in the walls of the heart‚ as well as in the walls of the blood vessels. This sort of muscle has similarities with the skeletal muscles‚ because it is striated. Furthermore‚ it has slight similarities to the smooth muscles‚ because its contractions are not under conscious control. On the other hand this type of muscle is highly specialised. It is under the control of the autonomic nervous system‚ however‚ even without nervous imput contractions can occur due to

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    more than 600 muscles in our bodies. They pump blood throughout your body‚ and help you lift heavy things like backpacks‚ and textbooks. You could control some of your muscles‚ while others like your heart‚ have their own jobs without us thinking at all. Muscles are all made up of same material. A type of tissue like the material in a rubber band. Thousands or tens of thousands of small fibers make up all or each muscle in our body. There are different muscles‚ fibers‚ and contractions. Three

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    Skeletal Muscle Lab Report

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    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 stimulus is applied

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    Introduction: Skeletal muscle cells are specialized cells that contain multinucleated muscle fibers called myocytes. These myocytes contain thicker fibers that facilitate the release of calcium‚ the generation of an action potential within the sarcolemma‚ and the subsequent production of a muscle contraction. Muscle contractions are a direct byproduct of motor unit recruitment‚ and for this lab we can examine these effects with aid of a finger pulse transducer and a bar stimulus electrode. The

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    muscle contraction Introduction For a skeletal muscle fiber to contract‚ a stimulus must be applied to it. The stimulus is delivered by a nerve cell‚ or neuron. A neuron has a threadlike process called and axon that my run 91 cm or more to a muscle. A bundle of such fibers from man different neurons composes a nerve. A neuron that stimulates muscle tissue is called a motor neuron. The motor neuron branches into terminal structures called telodendria that come into close approximation with

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    Skeletal Muscle Tissue

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    Topic 1 - Muscular System: Anatomy Review: Skeletal Muscle Tissue 1. Fill in the characteristics of the three muscle types: Muscle Type Cardiac Skeletal Smooth Shape of cell Branching Long‚ cylindrical Elongated # of nuclei Uninucleate Multinucleate Uninucleate Striations Yes Yes No Control Involuntary Voluntary Involuntary 2. What attaches muscles to bone? Tendons. 3. The whole muscle is composed of muscle cells (fibers) grouped in bundles called fascicles. 4. Name the connective

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    Rapid Muscle Contractions

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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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