Human Anatomy and Physiology : Help with General Muscle Structures
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Example Question #11 : Help With General Muscle Structures
Which of the following are characteristics of only skeletal muscle?
Troponin-tropomyosin complex regulates contraction
Striated
Calcium required for contraction
Multinucleated
Multinucleated
Characteristics of smooth muscle include: striated, somatic innervation, multinucleated, and requiring calcium for contraction. Furthermore, similar characteristics are seen in cardiac muscle such as: striations, autonomic innervation, 1-2 nuclei, requires calcium for contraction. Finally, smooth muscle is nonstriated, has autonomic innervation, mononucleated, and requiring calcium for contraction.
Example Question #12 : Muscle Physiology
To which of the following molecules does calcium released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum bind?
Actin
Tropomyosin
Troponin
Myosin
Troponin
Calcium is released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum into the the sarcoplasm. It binds the troponin molecules on the thin filaments, causing the strands of tropomyosin to shift, exposing the myosin-binding sites on the thin filaments.
Example Question #12 : Help With General Muscle Structures
Where is calcium stored in the skeletal muscle cell?
Calcium is stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum, awaiting a signal for release into the cytoplasm.
Calcium is not particularly stored in any location in the skeletal muscle cell, and is equally distributed.
None of the answers are correct.
Calcium is stored in the cytoplasm, awaiting a signal for release into the cytoplasm.
Calcium is stored extracellularly, and only allowed into the skeletal muscle cell after neuronal signals.
Calcium is stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum, awaiting a signal for release into the cytoplasm.
Calcium is stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum at high concentrations. When neurons signal the contraction of muscle, calcium is released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and facilitates the contraction of muscle fibers and ATP hydrolysis, to generate muscle contraction force.
Example Question #13 : Help With General Muscle Structures
The perimysium surrounds which of the following parts of a skeletal muscle fiber?
myofibril
muscle
fascicle
myofilament
myofiber
fascicle
The perimysium surrounds the fascicles in a skeletal muscle fiber. From largest to smallest, the sequence goes as follows: the Epimysium surrounds the entire muscle; the Perimysium surrounds the fascicles inside the muscle; the Endomysium surrounds the myofiber (muscle cell).
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