Tetanus is a phenomenon where muscle fibers are continuously contracted. What best explains this? Large action potentials on the sarcolemma Increase in acetylcholinesterase increase in the lag phase Increase in calcium pump activity Calcium remains elevated in the sarcoplasm
Tetanus is a phenomenon where muscle fibers are continuously contracted. What best explains this?
Large action potentials on the sarcolemma
Increase in acetylcholinesterase
increase in the
Increase in calcium pump activity
Calcium remains elevated in the sarcoplasm
Tetanus is a sustained muscle contraction evoked when the motor nerve that innervates a skeletal muscle emits action potentials at a very high rate. During this state, a motor unit has been maximally stimulated by its motor neuron and remains that way for some time. This occurs when a muscle's motor unit is stimulated by multiple impulses at a sufficiently high frequency. If stimuli are delivered at high frequency, the twitches will overlap, resulting in tetanic contraction. An unfused tetanus is when the muscle fibers do not completely relax before the next stimulus because they are being stimulated at a fast rate; however there is a partial relaxation of the muscle fibers between the twitches. Fused tetanus is when there is no relaxation of the muscle fibers between stimuli and it occurs during a high rate of stimulation. A fused tetanic contraction is the strongest single-unit twitch in contraction.
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