Exam 8: Muscle Physiology

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____________________ movements are the most complex type of motor activity.

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Figure 8-12 Answer the following questions using the accompanying figure. Figure 8-12 Answer the following questions using the accompanying figure.    -Which number in the accompanying figure represents the detachment stage of the cross-bridge cycle? -Which number in the accompanying figure represents the detachment stage of the cross-bridge cycle?

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At each junction of an A band and I band,the surface membrane dips into the muscle fiber to form a(n)____________________.​

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What kind of smooth muscle contracts in bursts?​

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ATP splitting is much slower in smooth muscle,so cross-bridge activity and filament sliding occur about ten times more slowly in smooth muscle than in skeletal muscle.

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How many "heads" does each myosin molecule have?

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The H zone,in the center of the ____________________ where the thin filaments do not reach,becomes ____________________ as the thin filaments approach each other when they slide more deeply inward.​

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A connection involving stimulation of the nerve supply to one muscle and simultaneous inhibition of the nerves to its antagonistic muscle is known as reciprocal innervation.​

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A single ____________________ pulls the thin filament inward only a small percentage of the total shortening distance.​

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What is rigor mortis?​

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The portion of a lever between the fulcrum and the point where a force is applied by the muscle is called the ____.​

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What molecules form the thick filaments within muscle?

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How many thin filaments are on each end of a sarcomere?

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What hormone,elevated during exercise,increases oxygen consumption?

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In contrast to muscle spindles,which lie in the tendons of muscle,Golgi tendon organs are in the belly of muscle.​

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Twitch summation results primarily from a sustained elevation in cytosolic Ca₂+.​

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Central fatigue occurs when the central nervous system no longer adequately activates the motor neurons supplying the working muscles.

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When the end product of glycolysis,pyruvate,cannot be further processed by oxidative phosphorylation,it is converted to ____________________.

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Lacking sarcomeres,smooth muscle does not have Z lines,but it does have ____________________ containing the same protein constituent found in Z lines.

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A(n)____________________ is a rigid structure capable of moving around a pivot point known as a(n)____________________.

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