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    Skeletal muscle connects to the skeleton, to form part of the mechanical system, giving the ability to move limbs throughout the entire body. Skeletal muscle is made up of hundreds, or even thousands of muscle fibers bundled together and wrapped in a connective tissue covering. The following labs were conducted showing the effect of the ATP on the rabbit fibers and the fatigue caused by continuous and repetitive muscle contractions.

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    Skeletal muscle connects to the skeleton, to form part of the mechanical system, giving the ability to move limbs throughout the entire body. Skeletal muscle is made up of hundreds, or even thousands of muscle fibers bundled together and wrapped in a connective tissue covering. The following labs were conducted showing the effect of the ATP on the rabbit fibers and the fatigue caused by continuous and repetitive muscle contractions.

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    Name:TimothyDent

    SkeletalMuscleLabReport
    DueNov23rd

    Skeletalmuscleconnectstotheskeleton,toformpartofthemechanicalsystem,giving
    theabilitytomovelimbsthroughouttheentirebody.In1864Kuhnediscoveredthemyosin
    proteinandthattheskeletalmuscleismadeupofhundreds,oreventhousandsofmusclefibers
    bundledtogetherandwrappedinaconnectivetissuecovering.Musclecontractionsofthose
    thousandsofmusclefiberswerestudiedbyfourmajorscientistsAndrewF.Huxley,rolf
    Niedergerke,HughHuxley,andJeanHansonin1954theyfoundthatATPcausedactinand
    myosintoslideacrosseachotherastheskeletalmusclecontractionoccurred.AngeloMossoin
    thelate1800sworkedwithphysiologistsWilhelmLudwig,DuBoisReymond,hugoKronecker,
    andEtienneMareytoconductresearchonmusclefatigueusingmuscletracings.Applying
    knowledgeofskeletalmusclestructure,contraction,fatiguethefollowinglabswereconducted
    showingtheeffectoftheATPontherabbitfibersandthefatiguecausedbycontinuousand
    repetitivemusclecontractions

    Part1.

    SkeletalMuscleStructure:

    Figure1:Drawingofthelayersoftheskeletalmusclestructurestartingfromthebonetothe
    myofibrilstoillustratethescaleofmusclesystem

    Part2.MuscleContraction

    MuscleFiber
    Lengthsinmm

    BeforeATPLength

    AfterATPLength

    BeforeATPWidth

    AfterATPWidth

    125

    110

    10

    125

    90

    15

    20

    135

    120

    12

    16

    123

    110

    11

    Averages

    127

    107.5

    11

    14.25

    PercentContraction

    84.64

    129.54

    Theskeletalmuscleisoneofthethreemajormusclesystems.Themusclesgotshorterwhen
    ATPwasaddedbecausetheATPsimulatesacontractionofthemyosinheadsattachingtothe
    actinformingabridgethatpullsthefilamentinwardsofthesarcomerethuscausingittoshorten.

    Part3.MuscleFatigue

    Thedataintherepetitiveandcontinuousgriptestshowsthatmusclesstarttoshowfatiguethe
    longeryouperformthetest.Whenyourbrainsendsasignaltoexertmoreforcetotheobject
    themusclesbegintoworkharderagain.Thefasttwitchmusclesfatigueaslacticacid
    accumulatedandastheATPandbiochemicalstoregenerateATParedepleted.Therefore
    grippingtheprobeweakerastimegoesonuntilthebrainremindsthemuscleitcangripharder.

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