if, in a laboratory, a skeletal muscle cell receives a single stimulus to contract, it produces a single muscle twitch.  If we quickly fire another stimulus for the muscle to contract, prior to the muscle fully relaxing, then we have a condition of:   A. seizure   B. none of the above   C. complete tetanus   D. temporal summation   E. relaxation

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if, in a laboratory, a skeletal muscle cell receives a single stimulus to contract, it produces a single muscle twitch.  If we quickly fire another stimulus for the muscle to contract, prior to the muscle fully relaxing, then we have a condition of:

  A.

seizure

  B.

none of the above

  C.

complete tetanus

  D.

temporal summation

  E.

relaxation

 

The _________________ phase of the Sliding Filament Model of Contraction occurs when myosin and actin separate from one another.

A. cocking of the myosin head
B.

cross bridge detachment

C.

cross bridge formation

D.

action potential

E.

calcium release

During contraction, the bulk of calcium comes from the?

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