SAN BEDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE – Physiology Handout

Module 3 – GUIDE QUESTIONS

MODULE 3.1
1. Complete the table 6. Enumerate the steps in muscle relaxation.
a.
Types of Muscle 1. 2. 3. b.
c.

Histologic
features

Organs found 7. Discuss the sliding filament theory of muscle

contraction.

2. Draw a portion of a muscle and label its parts.

8. Differentiate isotonic vs. isometric contractions. Give

example.

ISOTONIC ISOMETRIC

EX. EX.

9. Compare the mechanism of contraction of the three

3. Discuss what happens when in a muscle twitch? types of muscle.

TYPES Smooth Skeletal Cardiac

Mechanism
of
Contraction
4. Label the parts.

10. Discuss how smooth muscle contaction is regulated

by the following:
a. Nervous control

b. Hormonal control

5. Enumerate the steps in muscle contraction

a. c. Mechanical control
b.
c.
d. d. Local tissue factors
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.

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Module 3 – GUIDE QUESTIONS

MODULE 3.2 4. Enumerate the single innervation of the ANS.

SYMPATHETIC ONLY PARASYMPATHETIC

1. What is the role of ANS in regulating the involuntary
ONLY
functions of the body?

5. What are the divisions of the ANS based on

biochemical differences?
a.
b.
c.
2. Label the parts. Autonomic nervous system and
i.
somatic motor system.
ii.

6. Based on the biochemical differences, which nerves

are cholinergic? Which nerves are adrenergic?

CHOLINERGIC ANDRENERGIC

3. Complete the table. Anatomical or Structural

differences of the ANS.

Parasympathetic Sympathetic
7. How do neurotransmitters work?
Origin of
preganglionic
neuron

Location of
peripheral
ganglia

Length of
preganglionic
fiber
8. Complete the table. Muscarinic receptors.

Length of Types of Location Mechanism of

postganglionic muscarinic action
fiber receptors

Degree of
branching of
preganglionic
nerve

9. Complete the table. Types of adrenoreceptors.

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Module 3 – GUIDE QUESTIONS

Types of Location Mechanism of

adrenoreceptors action
receptors

10. Discuss the central control of autonomic function.

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