Is wave summation the same as incomplete tetanus? No, because wave summation involves the addition of a second twitch, resulting in greater tension, and it results from stimulating the muscle before it has a ch
Summation of contractions refers to when a muscle will start to contract or twitch before the muscle has completely relaxed from a previous contraction/twitch. Tetanus is a condition in which there are constant and repeated summation of contractions, and the muscle is not able to relax at all...
Title: Muscle twitch response andrecruitment‚summationand tetanus Exercise 1: The effects of nerve stimulation Objectives: 1. To explore the motor and sensory effects of electrical stimuli on a student volunteer‚ using the nerves of the forearm. 2. To examine the position where a largest mus...
But post-tetanic potentiation also depended on the number of pulses, so that the relation between potentiation and twitch/tetanus ratio was shifted toward lower values of potentiation when the puls...Nonlinear summation of contractions in striated muscle. II. Potentiation of intracellular Ca21 ...