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Muscle Physiology
Muscle Anatomy
100
What is the black line pointing to?
What is the epiphyseal line?
100
What are the 5 branches of the facial nerve?
What are the temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular, and cervical branches?
100
What are the 3 types of epithelial tissue?
What are squamous, cuboidal, and columnar epithelium
100
What is the name of the molecule that provides energy for muscle contraction?
What is ATP?
100
What is the synapse that connects the motor neuron to the muscle fiber called?
What is a neuromuscular junction?
200
Bone cells called ______ maintain the bone matrix
What are osteocytes?
200
Which sensory receptors can detect changes in temperature?
What are thermoreceptors?
200
What is the main mineral stored in bones?
What is calcium?
200
What ion is released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum that triggers muscle contraction?
What is Calcium?
200
The involuntary contractions of smooth muscle to propel contents through the digestive tract are called the...?
What is peristalsis?
300
What is the name of joint #2?
What is a hinge/elbow joint?
300
The glial cell that myelinates and insulates axons in the peripheral nervous system
What is a neurolemmocyte?
300
What part of the neuron receives signals from other cells?
What are dendrites?
300
What molecule must bind to myosin for it to release from actin?
What is ATP?
300
What part of the skeletal muscle is this arrow pointing to?
What is striation?
400
Which bones are primarily formed through the process of intramembranous ossification?
What are the flat bones of the skull?
400
The primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain
What is GABA?
400
What is the name of the connective tissue layer that surrounds an entire muscle
What is epimysium?
400
What enzyme breaks down acetylcholine in the synaptic cleft to end muscle contraction?
What is acetylcholinesterase?
400
What part of the cardiac muscle is the arrow pointing to?
What is the intercalated disc?
500
A 55-year-old woman presents with bone pain, fatigue, and kidney stones. Blood tests show elevated calcium and parathyroid hormone. It is revealed that her subperiosteal bone has been undergoing resorption. What is the cause of this?
What is increased osteoblast activity?
500
What is the cause of the Inhibitory Postsypnaptic Potential (IPSP)?
What is the influx of chloride ions, or the efflux of potassium ions, into the postsypnatic neurons, resulting in hyperpolarization?
500
What happens to the sarcolemma immediately after acetylcholine binds to its receptors at the neuromuscular junction?
What is depolarization?
500
What is the condition called when there is no ATP available, causing muscles to remain contracted after death?
What is Rigor Mortis?
500
What part of the sarcomere is the blue arrow (on the right) pointing to?
What is the Z-disc of the sarcomere?