Skeletal muscle contraction

Muscle Contraction Cycle

Summary of the events of contraction and relaxation in a skeletal muscle fiber

When a muscle is ready to contract, calcium in the muscle fibers exposes myosin-binding sites on actin filaments. Actin−myosin cross-bridges form. By hydrolyzing ATP, myosin heads push up against actin fibrils, contracting the sarcomere. Calcium and ATP presence enables cross-bridge cycling.

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ATP and muscle contraction

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An overview of the contraction physiology and the events involved in excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscles.

SKELETAL MUSCLE CONTRACTION AND THE MOTOR UNIT

Mechanism of muscle contraction- notes

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Muscle contraction and relaxation at the sarcomere level.

Muscle contraction

Molecular muscle contraction

Muscle fibers consist of multiple flattened nuclei, a sarcolemma membrane, transverse (T) tubules (membrane invaginations that penetrate the cell) that are important for muscular contraction/activation, and sarcoplasm, which contains myofilaments within the myofibrils and mitonchondira (to supply ATP), glycogen (stores glucose to serve as fuel), myoglobin (oxygen delivering protein).