Locomotor

Skeletal muscle cells are NOT:

Mononucleate

Long

Cylindrical

Which statement about the myosin filament is the LEAST accurate?

Has a helical tail and globular head

Contains an ATP binding site

Made of 2 heavy chains and 2 light chains

Reversibly binds actin

During muscle contraction, when is ADP+Pi released?

Cross-bridge formation

Calcium binding Tn-C

Cross-bridge detachment

Power stroke

What energy source does type IIa and IIb muscle fibre rely on?

Creatinine phosphate

Anaerobic glucose metabolism

Cellular respiration

For which one of these disorders is obesity a risk factor?

DDH (developmental dysplasia of hip)

Perthes disease

SCFE (slipped capital femoral epithesis)

Which type of axon transmits cooling and prickling pain signals?

A-alpha

A-beta

A-delta

What type of receptors give rise to A-beta axons?

Nociceptors

Free nerve endings

Mechanoreceptors

Proprioreceptors

What is a isometric muscle contraction?

Increases both length and tension

Increases length, but maintains the same tension

Maintains length, increases tension

Decreases length, maintains tension

Maintains length, decreases tension

Inhibitory synapses are closer to cell bodies.

TRUE

FALSE

Which tract is mostly nociceptive?

Corticospinal

Corticobulbar

Lateral spinothalamic

Anterior spinothalamic

What would be the composition of CSF of a patient affected by meningitis?

What would be an example of primary head injury?

Brain swelling

Increased intracranial pressure

Contusion

Infarction

Which one of these involves multiple nerves in disparate areas?

Mononeuropathy

Mononeuropathy multiplex

Polyneuropathy

Which one of these is the least severe?

Neuropraxia

Axonotmesis

Neurotmesis

What disease is characterised by inverted champagne-bottle legs?

Guillan-Barre syndrome

Charcot Marie Tooth disease

Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Osteogenesis imperfecta

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