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Mike Baxter
26 October, 07:41
Muscle contractions
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Camden Knapp
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This is when. The sequence of events that result in the contraction of an individual muscle fiber begins with a signal-the neurotransmitter, ACh-from the motor neuron innervating that fiber. The local membrane of the fiber will depolarize as positively charged sodium ions (Na+) enter, triggering an action potential that spreads to the rest of the membrane will depolarize, including the T-tubules. This triggers the release of calcium ions (Ca++) from storage in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). The Ca+ + then initiates contraction, which is sustained by ATP (Figure 1). As long as Ca+ + ions remain in the sarcoplasm to bind to troponin, which keeps the actin-binding sites "unshielded," and as long as ATP is available to drive the cross-bridge cycling and the pulling of actin strands by myosin, the muscle fiber will continue to shorten to an anatomical limit.
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