Muscle characteristics
Striated muscle located in the heart.
What is Cardiac muscle?
The name of skeletal muscle cells
What are muscle fibers?
The plasma membrane surrounding the fibers
what is sarcoplasm?
Found in the digestive tract, blood vessels, bladder, airways and uterus
What is Smooth muscle?
connective tissue covering each muscle fiber
What is endomysium?
Myofibrils store this, as well as oxygen, for energy
What is glycogen?
The only voluntary muscle
What is skeletal muscle?
surrounds the muscle as a whole
Myofilaments are made up of what proteins?
What are myosin and actin?
Unstriated muscles
what is smooth muscle?
This tissue surrounds the epimysium.
What is Fascia?
These allow electric impulses to flow between muscle cells.
What are transverse tubules?