This type of muscle has Dihydropyridine Voltage receptors that do not involve calsium
What is skeletal muscle?
A 28 year old comes in and has been stabbed through her erector spinae. What type of skeletal muscle has weapon injured?
What is Type 1?
This structure in the intercalated discs serve to maintain ionic coupling between cells.
What are gap junctions?
At 75 year old is having difficult maintaining the muscle tone of their sphincter, what process of the smooth muscle may be effected?
What is the latch state?
What does CICR stand for what which types of muscle cells do this?
Calcium induced calcium release and smooth and cardiac
Upon examination under a microscope, the skeletal muscle of a patient seems normal; however, upon contraction the actual length of the muscle doesn't seem to change. What part of the sarcomere could be effected?
Z-line
What are dense bodies?
A 55 year old patient, is having hard time moving food down their esophagus, upon analysis you learn that their MLCK complex is not phosphorylating myosin properly. What part of myosin is not being phosphorylated?
The myosin light chain
ATP
A 67 year old patient is having problems with their ligand-gated calcium channel. What branch of the nervous system if effected by this?
Autonomic nervous system