Muscle Anatomy
Muscle Anatomy cont.
Muscle Contraction Physiology
Muscle Contraction Physiology
100
The connective tissue that surrounds individual muscle cells
What is endomysium?
100
The connective tissue that surrounds a fascicle
What is perimysium?
100
Acetylcholine
What is a neurotransmitter?
100
Restores relative ionic concentrations on the two sides of the membrane during rest.
What is the sodium/potassium pump?
200
The area from z disc to z disc
What is a sarcomere?
200
The plasma membrane of the muscle cell
What is the sarcolemma?
200
Release and absorb calcium ions
What is the sarcomplasmic reticulum?
300
myosin
What is thick filament?
300
A cordlike extension of connective tissue beyond the muscle, serving to attach muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
300
Attach to active sites on actin filaments.
What is myosin filaments?
400
stores calcium ions
What is the sarcomplasmic reticulum?
400
Actin or myosin containing structure
What is a myofilament?
400
Sodium rushes into the cell
What is depolarization?
500
A neuron and all of the skeletal muscle fibers that it stimulates
What is a motor unit?
500
A long filamentous organelle found withing muscle cell that has a banded apprearance
What is a myofibril?
500
Potassium diffuses out of the cell
What is repolarization?
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