In Skeletal Muscle, an Incomplete Tetanus Would Result from

question 22

Multiple Choice

In skeletal muscle, an incomplete tetanus would result from

• A) action potentials arriving at a rate fast enough for the intracellular Ca²⁺ levels to rise much higher than they would in a muscle twitch.
• B) action potentials arriving at a rate fast enough for sarcomeres to generate force while the elastic components of the muscle are still stretched.
• C) action potentials arriving so quickly that there is no fluctuation in intracellular Ca²⁺ levels.
• D) many, but not all, of the thin filaments being activated to permit cross-bridge formation.

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