Chapter 8 Flashcards
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Same as muscle cell
Muscle fiber
Covers muscle
Epimysium
Covers cell
Endomysium
Covers fascicle
Perimysium
Connects skin to muscle or muscle to muscle
Fascia
Where a motor neuron stimulates a muscle cell
Neuromuscular junction
White connective tissue on ventral
Linea alba
Group of muscle cells
Fascicles
Needed to expose binding sites on actin
Troponin
Stores calcium ions
Terminal cisternae
Covers binding sites on actin
Tropomyosin
Fixed end
Moveable end
Origin
Insertion
When oxygen is lacking it causes
Lactic acid
Sheet that connects muscle to bone
Aponeurosis
Space between axon terminal and muscle cell
Synaptic cleft
Molecule of energy
ATP
Contains neurotransmitters
Synaptic vesicles
Cell membrane
Sarcolemma
Folded surface
Motor end plate
Pet of myosin that attaches to actin
Cross bridge
Increase in number of motor units being activated
Recruitment
Thin slides over thick
Sliding filament theory
Contracts or if doesn’t
All or none
Can lose a phosphate so energy creates ATP
Creatine phosphate