The Relationship Between Sciatic Nerve And Gastrocnemius

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I hypothesized that the higher the stimulus intensity the higher the contraction of the nerve and muscle. However, between the sciatic nerve and the muscle, the nerve has the biggest force. Such as when there was a high stimulus intensity and a high CAP amplitude in the nerve. The nerve also experienced more contractions than the muscle. It is important to understand the relationship between a sciatic nerve and a gastrocnemius of Rana pipen to understand how an action potential influences the stimulation intensity and contraction force. Regardless, it was seen that the higher the stimulus intensity the bigger the contraction force (Ma et.,2015). For future studies it important to have more stimulations for the gastrocnemius to equally study

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