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What is the relationship between the number of motor neurons recruited and the number of skeletal muscle fibers innervated?
Typically, hundreds of skeletal muscle fibers are innervated by a single motor neuron.Completed
2 cell populations that do not divide?
Skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and mature neurons.
At what junction do nerves contact skeletal muscle fibers?
Motor neurons meet the muscle cells at neuromuscular junctions. Neurotransmitters are passed from the nerve across a synaptic cleft to the muscle to make it contract. Any damage to this nerve will mean that those cells will not contract (move).
What is the substance used by motor neurons to transmit stimuli to skeletal muscle?
norepinephrine
What are similarities between skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle?
cardiac is cardiac and skeletal is skeletal.
What plays a critical role as a transmitter when neurons meet skeletal muscles?
The critical transmitter at the junction where neurons meet skeletal muscles is acetylcholine (ACh). When a motor neuron is stimulated, it releases acetylcholine into the neuromuscular junction, binding to receptors on the muscle fiber's membrane. This binding triggers depolarization of the muscle cell, leading to muscle contraction. Thus, acetylcholine is essential for communication between the nervous system and skeletal muscles.
Why does motor neuron disease result in paralysis of skeletal system?
Skeletal muscle contraction is activated by motor neurons in the spinal cord, which are themselves under control from motor neurons in the brain. Without nervous input, the muscles wont respond to volitional control.
Where do nerve impulses first stimulate a skeletal muscle fiber?
The motor nerve cells control the skeletal muscle
How many neurons extend from spinal cord to skeletal muscle Effexor?
The pathway from the spinal cord to skeletal muscle typically involves two main neurons: the upper motor neuron, which originates in the brain and descends through the spinal cord, and the lower motor neuron, which extends from the spinal cord to the skeletal muscle. The lower motor neurons exit the spinal cord through the anterior horn and innervate the muscle fibers directly. Thus, in terms of direct neural connections, there are usually two neurons involved in this motor pathway.
What components of nerves are involved in skeletal muscle movement?
Motor neurons within the peripheral nervous system carry signals from the brain and spinal cord to the skeletal muscles, while muscle fibers receive and respond to these signals, leading to muscle contraction and movement. Motor units, comprising a motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates, work together to control muscle movement output.
What type of excitatory neurotransmitter is secreted by motor neurons innervating skeletal muscle?
Acetylcholine is the excitatory neurotransmitter released by neurons innervating skeletal muscles. Acetylcholine release stimulates muscle contraction by acting at the nicotinic-acetylcholine receptor on the surface of the muscle cell.
Neurons that carry signals from the CNS to skeletal are part?
Neurons that carry signals from the central nervous system (CNS) to skeletal muscles are known as somatic motor neurons. These neurons are responsible for controlling voluntary movements of the body by transmitting signals that stimulate muscle contractions.
