EQN 3050- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)

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Eqn 3050 - lecture 2 - january 11th 2018. 75% of energy being consumed to contract muscle in lost as heat) Exercising these animals in the summer is common, so when exercising in heat and generating all the heat, this has major implications for the contraction of muscle. Smooth muscle: arranged in sheets, and when it contracts it a circular and rhythmic motion have lots of inter-digitation of these muscles (overlapping, intertwining) Cardiac muscle: intercalculated discs that create areas of electrical resistant between each muscle cells; slows down transmission of action potential so contraction happens at the appropriate place and time in the heart. Repolarization: opening of k channels to let k rush out, closing of na so no more na can come in, na/k pump to restore resting potential. Rhabdomyolysis: nutritional; vitamin e/selenieum de ciency (low selenium in our soil) get the coffee coloured urine, metabolic; glycogen branching enzyme de ciency, polysaccharide storage myopathy (pssm)