Describe the following for skeletal, smooth, and cardiac myocytes. How each cell receives a signal Excitation-contraction coupling Pacemaker cells Repolarization...

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Describe the following for skeletal, smooth, and cardiacmyocytes.

  1. How each cell receives a signal
  2. Excitation-contraction coupling
  3. Pacemaker cells
  4. Repolarization (cardiac only)

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1 Cells receive signals in chemical form such as various signaling molecules which binds to an appropriate receptor on a cell surface resulting in chain of events that carries the signal to the cell interior Cells signaling molecules includes chemical signals such as neurotransmittershormones peptides nucleotides which binds to its appropriate receptors and shows their action on that cell Cardiac myocytes receive signals from    See Answer
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