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8) Muscle cells rely on calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum for contraction in which type of muscle?

a) Cardiac muscle
b) Skeletal muscle
c) Cardiac and skeletal muscle
d) neither cardiac nor skeletal muscle.

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B

  #3

C :?:

  #4

sorry it is typing error I will also choose C.

  #5

all muscles require Ca from sarcoplasmic reticulum as source of Ca,but skeletal muscles dont rely on Ca from any external source as ECf and so rely only on sarcoplasmic reticulum for Ca ,as opposed to cardiac and smooth muscles. so :?:

  #6

8) Answer: c

The flux of EC Ca++ that occurs in cardiac m. corresponds to plateau phase (Phase 2) of the cardiac Axn pot.

Blocking fast Na channels will prevent skeletal muscle contraction, but cardiac muscle also have slow Na channels which can depolarize the cell. Cardiac m. spontaneously depolarize and are electrically coupled to each other.

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