PNB 2264 PRACTICAL 2 EXPECTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2027
Question 1.
What does a force transducer do?
Correct Answer: Converts mechanical force into an electrical signal that can be
interpreted by software to measure muscle tension
Question 2.
Why do we need calibration?
Correct Answer: Raw output (millivolts) needs to be calibrated to give us the
more meaningful force unit of milli-Newtons (mN), gain precise measurements,
remove tension that is not a result of muscle contraction, zero force transducer
Question 3.
What is a threshold stimulus?
Correct Answer: Voltage at which we first see a twitch response
Question 4.
What is a maximal stimulus?
Correct Answer: The stimulus voltage at which the response amplitude no longer
increases
Question 5.
What is a supramaximal ulus?
Correct Answer: excitation stim- 1.5 times the maximal stimulus; recruitment of
all muscle fibers
Question 6.
What kind of response does a single muscle fiber have?
Correct Answer: All or none
,Question 7.
What kind of response many muscle fibers)
Correct Answer: do muscles (with Graded have?
Question 8.
What is a motor unit?
Correct Answer: One motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates
Question 9.
What causes increased contraction of a muscle?
Correct Answer: Increase in voltage
Question 10.
What is changed to achieve tetanus?
Correct Answer: Frequency of stimulus
Question 11.
Prolonged contraction of a muscle that results from rapidly repeating stimuli; Occurs
because the stimulus frequency is so high that the relaxation stage goes away completely
leading to a sustained contraction
Correct Answer: Tetanus
Question 12.
What has to be changed imal contraction?
Correct Answer: to achieve max- Increased stimulus amplitude
Question 13.
What are the causes of fatigue in muscles?
Correct Answer: Build up of ADP, Pi, Mg2+, H+ (lactic acid); H+ competes with
Ca2+ in binding to troponin; Conduction failure (lack of power stroke)
Question 14.
What is the optimal
,Correct Answer: physiological length? C
Question 15.
What is the range of physiological lengths?
Correct Answer: B, D
Question 16.
Which are outside of physiological range?
Correct Answer: A, E
Question 17.
Relates the strength traction to the length which the contraction
Correct Answer: Length-Tension Relationship of an isometric con-of the muscle
at occurs
Question 18.
In a state of rigor mortis, the muscles are highly contracted and difficult to manipulate.
Why does this phenomenon occur?
Correct Answer: Lack of ATP
, Question 19.
Why does rigor mortis go away?
Correct Answer: Decomposition of tissue (release of enzymes over time)
Question 20.
Correct Answer: Know twitch, summation, tetanus recordings and explanations
Question 21.
Has pyramidal cells
Correct Answer: Cerebral Cortex
Question 22.
Has purkinje fibers
Correct Answer: Cerebellum
Question 23.
What happens to concentration decreases?
Correct Answer: Vrest if the internal Na+ It becomes more positive.
Question 1.
What does a force transducer do?
Correct Answer: Converts mechanical force into an electrical signal that can be
interpreted by software to measure muscle tension
Question 2.
Why do we need calibration?
Correct Answer: Raw output (millivolts) needs to be calibrated to give us the
more meaningful force unit of milli-Newtons (mN), gain precise measurements,
remove tension that is not a result of muscle contraction, zero force transducer
Question 3.
What is a threshold stimulus?
Correct Answer: Voltage at which we first see a twitch response
Question 4.
What is a maximal stimulus?
Correct Answer: The stimulus voltage at which the response amplitude no longer
increases
Question 5.
What is a supramaximal ulus?
Correct Answer: excitation stim- 1.5 times the maximal stimulus; recruitment of
all muscle fibers
Question 6.
What kind of response does a single muscle fiber have?
Correct Answer: All or none
,Question 7.
What kind of response many muscle fibers)
Correct Answer: do muscles (with Graded have?
Question 8.
What is a motor unit?
Correct Answer: One motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates
Question 9.
What causes increased contraction of a muscle?
Correct Answer: Increase in voltage
Question 10.
What is changed to achieve tetanus?
Correct Answer: Frequency of stimulus
Question 11.
Prolonged contraction of a muscle that results from rapidly repeating stimuli; Occurs
because the stimulus frequency is so high that the relaxation stage goes away completely
leading to a sustained contraction
Correct Answer: Tetanus
Question 12.
What has to be changed imal contraction?
Correct Answer: to achieve max- Increased stimulus amplitude
Question 13.
What are the causes of fatigue in muscles?
Correct Answer: Build up of ADP, Pi, Mg2+, H+ (lactic acid); H+ competes with
Ca2+ in binding to troponin; Conduction failure (lack of power stroke)
Question 14.
What is the optimal
,Correct Answer: physiological length? C
Question 15.
What is the range of physiological lengths?
Correct Answer: B, D
Question 16.
Which are outside of physiological range?
Correct Answer: A, E
Question 17.
Relates the strength traction to the length which the contraction
Correct Answer: Length-Tension Relationship of an isometric con-of the muscle
at occurs
Question 18.
In a state of rigor mortis, the muscles are highly contracted and difficult to manipulate.
Why does this phenomenon occur?
Correct Answer: Lack of ATP
, Question 19.
Why does rigor mortis go away?
Correct Answer: Decomposition of tissue (release of enzymes over time)
Question 20.
Correct Answer: Know twitch, summation, tetanus recordings and explanations
Question 21.
Has pyramidal cells
Correct Answer: Cerebral Cortex
Question 22.
Has purkinje fibers
Correct Answer: Cerebellum
Question 23.
What happens to concentration decreases?
Correct Answer: Vrest if the internal Na+ It becomes more positive.