Name: Grupo 6 Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 1: The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 80% by answering 4 out of 5 questions correctly. 1. Skeletal muscles are connected connected to bones by You correctly answered: b. tendons. 2. Skeletal muscles are are composed of hundreds to thousands of individual cells called You correctly answered: c. fibers. 3. The term term motor unit refers refers to You correctly answered: c. one motor neuron and all of the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates. 4. The motor neuron and muscle fiber intersect at what is called You correctly answered: d. the neuromuscular junction. 5. A twitch is Your answer : b. one contractile response to a series of action potentials. Correct answer: a. one contractile response to a single action potential.
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Experiment Results Predict Question: Predict Question: Will changes to the stimulus voltage alter the duration of the latent period? Your answer : a. Yes, changing the stimulus voltage will change the latent period duration proportionately. Stop & Think Questions: What is the period of time that elapses between the generation of an action potential and the start of muscle tension development in a muscle fiber? You correctly answered: c. the latent period What occurs during the latent period of these isometric contractions? You correctly answered: b. All the steps of excitation-contraction coupling occur. Experiment Data: Voltage 0.0 3.0 4.0 4.0 2.0 3.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 8.0 10.0
Length 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75
Active Force 0.0 1.04 1.32 1.32 0.66 1.04 1.65 1.74 1.81 1.82 1.82
Total Force 0.0 1.04 1.32 1.32 0.66 1.04 1.65 1.74 1.81 0.07 1.82
Latent Period ---------------2.80 2.00 ---------2.00
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Post-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 6 out of 6 questions correctly. 1. An action potential in a motor neuron triggers the release of which neurotransmitter? You correctly answered: b. acetylcholine 2. The term skeletal muscle fiber refers to You correctly answered: a. an individual skeletal muscle cell. 3. The graded depolarization in the skeletal muscle fiber that is elicited in response to one action potential from the motor neuron is called You correctly answered: c. an EPP (end-plate potential). 4. Which of the following is not a phase of a skeletal muscle twitch? You correctly answered: b. hyperpolarization phase 5. A skeletal muscle twitch is You correctly answered: a. one contractile response to a single action potential. 6. Which of the following correctly matches the twitch phase with its definition? You correctly answered: d. the contraction phase: the time between the end of the latent period and peak muscle tension
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Review Sheet Results 1. Define the terms skeletal muscle fiber, motor unit, skeletal muscle twitch, electrical stimulus, and latent period. Your answer: The skeletal muscle is
2. What is the role of acetylcholine in a skeletal muscle contraction? You did not answer this question. 3. Describe the process of excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle fibers. You did not answer this question. 4. Describe the three phases of a skeletal muscle twitch. Your answer: Fase de despolarizacion Entrada y salida de iones Llegada de potencial de acción a medida que avanza el potencial de acción en la fibra esta vuelve a su polaridad inicial . 5. Does the duration of the latent period change with different stimulus voltages? How well did the results compare with your prediction? Your answer: Yes, changing the stimulus voltage will change the latent period duration proportionately. 6. At the threshold stimulus, do sodium ions start to move into or out of the cell to bring about the membrane depolarization? Your answer: Iones sodio estan en el sarcolema...
