Muscle Tissue Characteristics
Can generate an action potential
What is excitability?
Makes up involuntary, hollow organs
What is smooth muscle?
Tissue that surrounds the entire muscle
What is the epimysium?
Slow twitch oxidative
What is Type I?
Characteristic of muscle that can depolarize and repolarize in response to a stimuli
What is excitability?
Cylindrical, striated, voluntary muscle
What is skeletal muscle?
Bundles of muscle fibers
What is fascicles?
Fast-twitch oxidative-glycolytic
What is Type IIA?
Means that muscle can be stretched to normal resting length and beyond to a limited degree
What is extensibility?
Cylindrical and branched, striated, involuntary muscle
What is cardiac muscle?
Tissue that surrounds fasciculi
What is perimysium?
Fast-twitch glycolytic
What is Type IIB?
Characteristic of muscle that describes the ability to make shorter (contract)
What is contractility?
Fusiform, involuntary, and uninucleate muscle
What is smooth muscle?
Tissue that surrounds individual muscle fibers
What is endomysium?
Muscle fiber that is more predominant in endurance athletes
What is Type I?
Characteristic of muscle that describes the ability to resume normal position after being stretched
What is elasticity?
Has intercalated discs
What is cardiac muscle?
Consists of myofibrils divided into sarcomeres
What is muscle fiber?
Has predominately type II fibers