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  • Contraction Of Skeletal Muscle Cells
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    PHYSIOLOGY 525 SKELETAL MUSCLE JANUARY 28, 1998 There are three types of muscle: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. From histology you know that skeletal and cardiac muscle are striated and smooth muscle is "smooth"- not striated. Muscles are often referred to as "sarco", from the Greek word meaning strength. Therefore instead of saying cytoplasm one uses sarcoplasm. The endoplasmic reticulum in muscle types is called sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Sometimes authors instead of using "sarco" they say "...
  • Determining Factor In Mmg Signal
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    MMG simply stated, is the sound that resonates from the muscle during a stimulated contraction. The act of pulling on a taught string and letting go has been related to model the sound generated by the muscle. This sound can be caused by the cycling of the actin myosin cross bridges, or perhaps by the gross lateral shift of the muscle, or maybe even the brief shock generated by the thickening of several active muscle fibers. These are three of the hypothesis that try to account for the sound emi...
  • Contractions Of Smooth Muscle
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    The musculo skeletal system is made up of bones, joints, and muscles. This system gives the body form and support, and protects the body while allowing it to move. Basically, the muscles in this system perform three important body functions: the movement of body parts, maintenance of body parts, and production of body heat. These muscles all consist of a mass of protein fibers grouped together, and most are of mesoderm al origin. And almost all of the muscle fibers you will ever have or need wer...
  • Muscle Contracts Myosin Filaments And Actin Filaments
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    Objective: Muscular System 1. Three types of muscles are the, latissimus dorsi, and the deltoid muscle. The smallest muscle is the smallest muscle which measures 1/20th of an inch. It is the activator of the stirrup that sends vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear. The largest muscle is the latissimus dorsi. This muscle is the flat est muscle of the back that moves during arm movement. The deltoid muscle is a triangular shaped muscle of the shoulder that forms the rounded flesh of the out...
  • Energy For Muscle Contraction During Short Term
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    The immediate source of energy for muscular contraction is the high-energy phosphate compound called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Although ATP is not the only energy-carrying molecule in the cell, it is the most important one, and without sufficient amounts of ATP most cells die quickly. The three main parts of an ATP molecule are: an adenine portion, a ribose portion, and three phosphates linked together. The formation of ATP occurs by combining adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosph...
  • Inhibition Of The Antagonistic Muscles
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    RECIPROCAL INHIBITIONeciprocal inhibition n: a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety [syn: reciprocal-inhibition therapy] Reciprocal Inhibition^aEURc The Lengthening Reaction: (previous subsection) ^aEURc What Happens When You Stretch: (beginning of section) When an agonist contracts, in order to cause th...
  • Slower Muscle Contractile Properties In Older Adults
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    Introduction With the onset of 2000, the average North Americans life span has been extended by three years. The predictable consequences are detrimental changes in body composition, including loss of lean body mass, strength, flexibility, and bone density, along with the increase in body weight and body fat. Inactivity with aging is the primary factor in these changes, because physical activity levels are one of the most important factors affecting body composition from childhood through old ag...
  • Motor Nerve And The Muscle Stimulus
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    Introduction The experiment involved an examination of contractile responses of a skeletal muscle. This is completed using an electrical stimulus, a dissected motor nerve is stimulated to achieve the desired muscle contractions. Then the stimulation of the muscle itself was observed, allowing for a comparison of voltage (force) requirements. This comparison of voltage's is obtained by finding and recording the threshold and maximal for both the motor nerve and the muscle stimulus. The threshold ...
  • Small Contraction Of The Biceps Muscle
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    There are many different apparatus that can be used when doing bicep curls such as bicep curls machines, multipurpose machines dumbbells or barbells. Free weights are said to be better because they take the muscle thought a natural range of movement. I would say that the use of dumbbells for the biceps curl is the best because it allows you to carry out one-arm curls, which allows each arm to be worked to it's full potential. It can also be done standing or seated. The preacher curl bench allows...

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