A 24-year-old professional athlete is advised to train in the mountains to enhance his performance. After 5 months of training at an altitude of 1.5 km (5,000 feet), he is able to increase his running pace while competing at sea-level venues. Which of the following changes would produce the same effect on the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve as this athlete's training did?
ADecreased 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate
BIncreased carbon monoxide inhalation
CDecreased temperature
DDecreased pH
EIncreased partial pressure of oxygen
A 15-year-old boy is sent from gym class with a chief complaint of severe muscle aches. In class today he was competing with his friends and therefore engaged in weightlifting for the first time. A few hours later he was extremely sore and found that his urine was red when he went to urinate. This concerned him and he was sent to the emergency department for evaluation. Upon further questioning, you learn that since childhood he has always had muscle cramps with exercise. Physical exam was unremarkable. Upon testing, his creatine kinase level was elevated and his urinalysis was negative for blood and positive for myoglobin. Thinking back to biochemistry you suspect that he may be suffering from a hereditary glycogen disorder. Given this suspicion, what would you expect to find upon examination of his cells?
ANormal glycogen structure
BShort outer glycogen chains
CAccumulation of glycogen in lysosomes forming dense granules
DGlycogen without normal branching pattern
EAbsence of glycogen in muscles
A healthy 22-year-old male participates in a research study you are leading to compare the properties of skeletal and cardiac muscle. You conduct a 3-phased experiment with the participant. In the first phase, you get him to lift up a 2.3 kg (5 lb) weight off a table with his left hand. In the second phase, you get him to do 20 burpees, taking his heart rate to 150/min. In the third phase, you electrically stimulate his gastrocnemius with a frequency of 50 Hz. You are interested in the tension and electrical activity of specific muscles as follows: Biceps in phase 1, cardiac muscle in phase 2, and gastrocnemius in phase 3. What would you expect to be happening in the phases and the respective muscles of interest?
AIncrease of tension in experiments 2 and 3, with the same underlying mechanism
BIncrease of tension in all phases
CRecruitment of large motor units followed by small motor units in experiment 1
DFused tetanic contraction at the end of all three experiments
ERecruitment of small motor units at the start of experiments 1 and 2
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