Name: CRIS

Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 4: Tetanus in Isolated Skeletal Muscle Lab Report
Pre-lab Quiz Results
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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question: As the stimulus frequency increases further, what will happen to the muscle tension and twitch
appearance with each successive stimulus? Will there be a limit to this response?
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Stop & Think Questions:
What begins to happen at around 80 msec?
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Correct answer: c. unfused tetanus develops
How does the trace at 130 stimuli/sec compare with the trace at 50 stimuli/sec?
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Correct answer: b. Fused tetanus develops at this greater stimulus frequency.
How do the traces with 146150 stimuli per second compare with the trace at 130 stimuli per second?
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Correct answer: d. Maximal tetanic tension develops with these very high stimulation frequencies.
Experiment Data:
Voltage
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5

Length
75
75
75
75
75
75
75
75

Stimuli/sec
50
130
140
142
144
148
150
146

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Active Force
5.12
5.88
5.91
5.92
5.94
5.95
5.95
5.95

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Passive Force
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

Total Force
5.12
5.88
5.91
5.92
5.94
5.95
5.95
5.95

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Post-lab Quiz Results

You scored 66% by answering 2 out of 3 questions correctly.
1. The term tetanus refers to
You correctly answered: b. sustained muscle tension due to very frequent stimuli.
2. Which of the following distinguishes a state of unfused tetanus from a state of complete (fused) tetanus?
You correctly answered: d. Muscle tension increases and decreases between different values for an unfused tetanus.
3. When the stimulus frequency reaches a value beyond which no further increases in force are generated by the muscle,
the muscle has reached its
Your answer: d. latent period.
Correct answer: a. maximal tetanic tension.

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Review Sheet Results

1. Describe how increasing the stimulus frequency affected the force developed by the isolated whole skeletal muscle in
this activity. How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
Si el musculo esqueletico aislado es sometido a una frecuencia de estimulacion; eventualmente se aumentara la fuerza de
contraccion debido a el trabajo continuo de todas las fibras ya que la superposicion de las contracciones genera mas
fuerza.
2. Indicate what type of force was developed by the isolated skeletal muscle in this activity at the following stimulus
frequencies: at 50 stimuli/sec, at 140 stimuli/sec, and above 146 stimuli/sec.
Your answer:
50 estimulos por segundo.- genera una fuerza total de 5,12 g
140 estimulos por segundo.- genera una fuerza total de 5,91 g
141 estimulos por segundo.- genera una fuerza total de 5,95 g llegando a una fuerza total maxima formando una meseta.
3. Beyond what stimulus frequency is there no further increase in the peak force? What is the muscle tension called at this
frequency?
Your answer:
Se contraen cerca de un tercio de su contraccion total.

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