Anatomy
Cellular Physiology
Exercise Physiology
Muscle physiology
Misc. Questions
100
The primary function of the alveoli in the lungs.
What is a gas exchange?
100
This molecule is the primary carrier of genetic information in cells and is located in the nucleus.
What is DNA?
100
The condition where prolonged muscle disuse leads to decreased muscle size and strength.
What is Muscle Atrophy?
100
This structure transmits force from muscle to bone.
What is a Tendon
100
This memberous system is directly adjacent to the Tranverse tubules, having the role of storing and releasing Ca2+.
What is the Sarcoplasmic Recticulum.
200
This stress hormone is released by the adrenal glands.
What is cortisol?
200
This type of transport requires ATP to move substances against their concentration gradient.
What is Active transport?
200
The maximum amount of oxygen a person can use during exercise.
What is VO2 max?
200
Type of contraction where force is produced but no movement occurs?
What is Isometric Contraction?
200
A fracture where the bone pierces through the skin, increasing the risk of infection.
What is a compound (open) fracture?
300
The part of the brain responsible for balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
300
The process by which glucose is synthesized from non-carbohydrate sources
What is Gluconeogenesis?
300
The part of the autonomic nervous system that reduces heart rate after exercise.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
300
The primary driver of muscle force production.
What is Motor Unit Recruitment?
300
This autoimmune disease overstimulates the TSH receptor, causing excess thyroid hormones.
What is Grave's disease (Hyperthyriodism)?
400
The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions like heart rate and digestion.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
400
The passive movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to a lower concentration without the use of transport proteins.
What is Simple Diffusion?
400
The nervous system division that controls voluntary movement.
What is the Somatic Nervous System
400
This muscle contraction produces the most force because the muscle resists stretching while under tension.
What is Eccentric Contraction?
400
The most abundant neurotransmitter/chemical in the peripheral nervous system (found in Somatic and Autonomic braches)
What is Acetylcholine?
500
The muscle that runs along the palmar side of the forearm and is sometimes absent in humans.
What is the palmaris longis?
500
This type of passive transport moves molecules through a membrane using protein channels.
What is Facilitated Diffusion?
500
The term for the air left in the lungs after maximal exhalation.
What is Residual lung Volume?
500
What are the collagenous connective tissues in a muscle that provide support, transmit force, and help with elasticity?
What is the Epimysium, Perimysium, Endomysium?
500
What type of muscle found in the afferent and efferent arterioles regulates glomerular filtration by controlling vessel diameter?
What is Smooth muscle?