Bones
A type of bone composed of trabeculae.
What is spongy bone?
The type of joint that anchors the teeth into their bony sockets.
What is a gomphosis?
The ion pump that is located on the membrane of every cell in our body and is always active.
Connective tissue layer that surrounds a single fascicle.
What is the perimysium?
ATP is an example of this type of biomolecule.
What is a nucleic acid?
Bone cells that deposit osteiod.
What are osteoblasts?
Interosseous membrane is an example of this subtype of a fibrous joint.
What is a syndesmosis?
A type of ion channel that must be physically opened by a linkage protein.
What is a mechanically-gated channel?
Area in a sarcomere that increases in length during contraction.
What is the zone of overlap?
Where cells synthesize extracellular proteins.
What is the rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Channels through which osteocytes receive nutrients.
What are canaliculi?
The thin layer of hyaline cartilage that covers the surface of adjacent bones.
The form of transport that is used to bring large protein molecules into the cell.
What is endocytosis?
A single motor neuron and all of the muscle cells that it innervates.
What is a motor unit?
The process of breaking down glucose to make ATP, which happens in the cytoplasm of a cell.
What is glycolysis?
The process where sheets of mesenchyme tissue differentiate into bone cells, this process forms the flat bones of the skull.
What is intramembranous ossification?
Fluid filled sacs that serve to reduce friction in a synovial joint.
What are bursae?
These allow potassium ions to diffuse out of the cell.
What are potassium leak channels?
Protein that anchors the thick filament to the z disc.
What is titin?
The substrate for aerobic metabolism.
What is pyruvate?
The site of erythropoiesis in bone.
What is red bone marrow? What is the epiphysis of long bones?
Two adjacent bones that have fused, that were previously connected by a joint.
What is a synostosis?
A predictable change in transmembrane potential.
What is an action potential?