3rd LE - Tissue Flashcards
Most abundant tissue in animals and its function is for movement.
Muscle Tissue
Contractile filaments that comprises specialized cells in muscular tissues
Actin
Myosin
3 types of muscle tissues
Smooth muscle
Skeletal muscle
Cardiac muscled
Involuntary muscled that lack striations (found in walls of digestive tract, urinary bladder, arteries, and others)
Smooth Muscle
Striated and voluntary muscle, functions for movement, and consists of long cells calle muscle fibers
Skelatal muscles
Contractile units that appears as stripes or striations
Sarcomeres
Striated and involuntary muscles that forms the contractile walls of the heart
Cardiac muscles
Type of tissue that generates and transmits electrical impulses
Nervous Tissue
The basic unit of the nervous system (aka nerve cells)
Neurons
Supporting cells that help nourish, insulate and replenish neurons (aka glia cells)
Neuroglia
Parts of a neuron
Dendrites
Cell body
Axon
An insulating membrane around the axon
Myelin sheath
Types of neurons
Sensory
Motor
Interneurons
Peripheral nervous system; receives info from the ourside envi and transmits the signal to the CNS
Sensory
CNS; transmits signals from the brain or spinal cord to the muscles
Motor
CNS; forms synapses with sensory and motor neurons and integrates sensory input and motor output
Interneurons
It is formed when fibers are bound by connective tissue
Nerves