PRACTICE QUIZ OF COMPLETE MUSCLE CONTRACTION FROM ARRIVAL OF ACTION POTENTIAL! PLEASE PRINT THIS PAGE AND THEN NUMBER THE SEQUENCE IN CORRECT ORDER. CHECK YOUR WORK WITH THE LINK BELOW 
									 
									____Calcium ions released 
									 
									____Calcium ions rush in and react with synamsin on synaptic vesicles 
									 
									____Myosin (S1 units) combine with actin 
									 
									____With ATP present, ATPase splits ATP to ADP + Pi + Energy 
									 
									____Tropomyosin returns over active sites on actin and contraction ceases 
									 
									____Impulse travels T- tubules & excites sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) 
									 
									____Motor nerves impulse action potential arrives at axon terminal of the neuromuscular junction 
									 
									____Shift of tropomyosin, make sites available for myosin 
									 
									____Acetylcholine released via process of exocytosis 
									 
									____Calcium binds with troponin 
									 
									____Sliding action of actin over myosin (Power Stroke) 
									 
									____Acetylcholine binds with receptor sites on motor end plate causing depolarization of motor end plate and sarcolemma (AChE repackages ACh back into synaptic vesicles) 
									 
									____Impulse stops to muscle: calcium ions rapidly return to SR 
									 
									____Synaptic vesicles fuse with cell membrane 
									 
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