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| What are the 2 divisions of the Nervous System? |
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| Central and Peripheral Nervous System |
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| Involuntary motor response to a stimulus, knee jerk, and withdrawl are all termed this. |
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| Muscle Spindles and Golgi Tendon Organs are both classified as this. |
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| Actin, Myosin, Troponin, and Tropomyosin are all part of what? |
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| What is the thin filament of muscle tissue? |
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| What is the thick filament of muscle tissue? |
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| What muscle filament is the crossbridge (head) attached to? |
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| During the sliding filament theory, what substance causes conformational change in shape of troponin/tropomyosin? |
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| Which branch of the nervous system controls the gradation of muscular force? |
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| Which principle states that increasingly forceful contrations are achieved by the recruitment of progressively larger motor units? |
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| Muscle force is modulated through which 2 mechanisms? |
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| Motor Unit Recruitment and Rate Coding |
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| Concentric, Isometric, and Eccentric are all types of what? |
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| This muscle action involves the production of force without movement at the joint. |
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| This muscle action produces force and shortens the muscle. |
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| This muscle action still produces force while the muscle lengthens. |
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| Definition of Hypertrophy |
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| Increase of the cross-sectional area (size) of exisiting muscle fiber. |
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| Definition of Hyperplasia |
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| An increase in the number of muscle fibers. |
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| Definition of Bilateral Deficit |
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| Force measured with both limbs concurrently is typically less than the sum of the force developed by each limb independently. |
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| True or False: Muscle fibers can transform from Type I to Type II and vise versa. |
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| False: Muscle fibers can only transform within their own specific fiber type. (ie- Type IIa to Type IIb, and vice versa) |
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| Early strength gains are mostly due to _______ adaptations. |
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