During intense exercise, fatigue of skeletal muscle occurs because of:

A. depletion of ATP within the skeletal muscle fiber
B. Ca++ overload by mitochondria within the muscle fiber
C. inhibition of actin-myosin interaction
D. stimulation of Ca++ release the SR
E. increased pH within the muscle fiber


ANS: C

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