1) Explain the anatomical breakdown of a muscle.
2) What is excitation-contraction coupling?
3) Explain the...
1) Explain the anatomical breakdown of a muscle.
2) What is excitation-contraction coupling?
3) Explain the sliding filament theory.
4) What happens to a muscle if an action potential stops
stimulating a muscle fiber?
Solutions
Expert Solution
Muscle breakdown cause the release of myoglobin to the blood
stream. It's a protein, which stores oxygen in muscle cells. Myopic
may damage kidney. Rhabdomyolysis is the process of breakdown of
damaged skeletal muscle.
Excitation contraction coupling is a process by which an
electrical stimuli triggers the release of calcium by sarcoplasmic
reticulum initiating the mechanism of muscle contraction by
sarcomere shortening
Skeletal
A) In skeletal muscle what do we mean by
excitation-contraction coupling?
B) What causes the excitation? Be specific as to the events
and ions and channels involved.
C) How is it linked to the contraction events? What ion is
involved and how does it work to initiate contraction? (include the
proteins activated)
D) What causes relaxation? (you do not have to describe the
complete contraction event, just what allows it to start and what
ends it)
Describe the process of excitation-contraction coupling in a
skeletal muscle fiber, starting at the very beginning and working
your way to the end of the process. Make sure you discuss all
relevant steps in the correct order.
Compare and contrast the excitation-contraction coupling
mechanisms of skeletal muscle versus contractile cardiac
muscle.
Need detailed answers please.
Topic 6: Skeletal muscle contraction
Describe in detail the entire process of excitation
coupling in skeletal muscle, begin with an action potential
reaching the synaptic knob of a motor neuron through completion of
a cross Bridge cycle. after detailing those events to include the
following information
Define a motor unit describe motor unit recruitment and
Explain how these terms relate to excitation-contraction
coupling.
Define and describe muscle twitch and summation and
explain how these terms relate to motor unit/motor unit...
1. Based on your knowledge of excitation-contraction coupling
and the symptoms in this case, what will a cholinesterase inhibitor
cause skeletal muscle to do?
2. Based on your knowledge of excitation-contraction coupling
and the symptoms in this case, what will a cholinesterase inhibitor
cause glands (which also respond to ACh) to do?
3. Based on your knowledge and information provided, what must
Atropine be an antagonist for?
Compare and contrast cardiac and skeletal muscle in the
following:
Cellular structure
Excitation-Contraction Coupling
Action potential of Skeletal Muscle cells and Cardiac
Contractile muscle cells
Production of ATP
Role of Calcium
Mechanisms for increased strength/force of contraction
During the excitation phase of the skeletal muscle cell
contraction, the following occurs:
1) the muscle fiber develops tension and shortens
2) the muscle fiber relaxes and returns to its original
length
3) nerve action potentials lead to muscle action potentials
A growing long bone in a child has only two types of cartilage
at the epiphysis. These two areas are
1) elastic cartilage and epiphyseal plate
2) epiphyseal plate and epiphyseal line
3) primary and secondary ossification centers
4)...
Explain “Excitation-Contraction Coupling” by describing the
chain of events that occurs from the Action Potential approaching
the terminal end of the motor neuron through the production of a
concentric contraction in the skeletal muscle