Basic muscle summation -an increase in the frequency with which a muscle is stimulated increases the strength of contraction. With increased stimuli to the heart if summation occurred the contractions would keep increasing.
Wave summation occurs when a muscle is stimulated rapidly enough that it does not have time to completely relax between stimuli, causing the contractions to combine or "summate" to produce a stronger muscle contraction. This phenomenon can occur during repetitive or sustained muscle activity, leading to increased muscle force production.
fibrosis
The intercalated disc is the band that forms by the joining of two cardiac muscles. These muscles work together to form a syncytium.
Ischemia occurs when there is not enough oxygenated blood reaching the cardiac muscle cells.
Wave summation occurs when a muscle undergoes rapid stimulation before it has fully relaxed, causing subsequent twitches to combine and result in a more forceful contraction. This is caused by an accumulation of calcium ions within the muscle fiber, which enhances the cross-bridge cycling process and leads to greater tension development.
Uhh, no uncontrolled muscle contraction occurs in smooth and cardiac muscles... there are many differences between these two types of muscles; controlled and uncontrolled muscle contraction.....
summation
simply: Wave summation occurs when a second stimulus is applied before relaxation occurs completely. In depth: In order for a muscle to contract electrical shock or nerve impulse must cause voltage-sensitive tubule proteins (T-tubules) of sarcoplasmic reticulum to change shape and allow Ca2+ into cytosol. Ca2+ binds to troponin (changing its shape) allowing myosin (makes thick filaments) to attach to actin ( makes thin filaments). Myosin pulls itself along actin via ATP hydrolysis, this is called a cross bridge cycle, basically shortening of muscle. Before the contraction stops, another stimulus is sent to the muscle allowing more Ca2+ into the cytosol which keeps allowing cross bridge cycle. wave summation means the contractions are added together. thus increasing the force of the second stimuli. force will increase until the muscle reaches its threshold.
Summation is the method in which signal transmission between neurons occurs. Summation occurs through excitatory neurotramitters and inhibitory neurotransmitters. Excitatory produces depolarization of the postsynaptic cell. Inhibitory mitigates the effects of an excutatory neurotransmitter. For more information visit the Related Link.
Summation occurs, where the two excitatory postsynaptic potentials combine to reach the threshold for firing an action potential. This can be either temporal summation, where two EPSPs from the same presynaptic neuron occur in quick succession, or spatial summation, where EPSPs from different presynaptic neurons arrive simultaneously.
in wave summation muscular fibers recieve second stimulus after a refractory period and before fiber relaxes while in tetanus the fiber receives 20-30 stimuli per second and it relax partialy.
Muscle tissue accounts for nearly one-half of the total body weight and consists of three distinct subtypes: • striated (skeletal) muscle • smooth (visceral) muscle, and • cardiac muscle Each type of muscle cell is designed to perform one basic function. Striated muscle is attached to bones that move the skeleton. Smooth muscle is located in the walls of hollow internal structures, such as the intestines and blood vessels, allowing such organs to expand and contract. Cardiac muscle occurs only in the heart, where it forms the walls and enables the heart to pump blood. When viewed under the light microscope, striated muscle cells appear long and thread-like with alternating light and dark cross strips called striations. In contrast, smooth muscle has no striations, Cardiac muscle cells, each of which has a nucleus, are slightly striated. Each cardiac muscle cell tends to divide into a "y" or "x" shape, so that it has more than two ends and joins more than two other cells, i.e., it intercalates. The ends of one cardiac muscle cell are separated from adjoining cells by a band called an intercalated disk. Unlike skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle are controlled involuntarily, i.e., an individual cannot stop or start the muscle action. highly cellular and well vascularized