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PHYANA Lec - Second Shifting > 7.2 Characteristics Of Skeletal Muscle > Flashcards

7.2 Characteristics Of Skeletal Muscle Flashcards

1
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___ with its associated connective tissue, constitutes approximately 40% of body weight

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Skeletal muscle

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2
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Causes strations

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thick and thin microfilaments

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3
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Ability of the muscles to shorten with force

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Contractility

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Capacity of skeletal muscle to respond the a stimulus

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Excitability

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Means that skeletal muscles can be stretched to their normal resting length and beyond to a limited degree

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Extensibility

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Ability of skeletal muscles to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched

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Elasticity

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7
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Connective tissue sheath surrounding the skeletal msucle

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Epimysium

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8
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Epimysium is also called ___

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Muscular fascia

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9
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Numerous visible bundles composing the muscle

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Muscle fasciculi

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10
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Muscle fasciculi are surrounded by loose connective tissue called ____

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Perimysium

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11
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Several muscles cells composing a fasciculus

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Muscle fibers

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12
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Loose connective tissue surrounding a muscle fiber

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Endomysium

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A single cylindrical fiber, with several nuclei located at its periphery

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Muscle fiber

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14
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Largest human muscles are up to___

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30cm long and 0.15mm in diameter

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15
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Cell membrane of the muscle fiber

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Sarcolemma

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Tubelike invaginations along the surface of the sarcolemma which occur at regular intervals along the muscle fiber and extend inward into it.

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transverse tubules or T tubules

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17
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A highly organized smooth endoplasmic reticulum

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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18
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Connects the sarcolemma to the sarcoplasmic reticulum

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T tubules

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19
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Has a relatively high concentration of Ca2+

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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20
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Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber

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Sarcoplasm

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21
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Threadlike structures that extend from one end of the muscle to the other

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Myofibrils

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22
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Major protein fibers making up the myofibrils

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Actin myofilaments and myosin myofilaments

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Actin and myosil myofilaments re arranged into highly ordered, repeating units called ____ which are joined end to end to form the myofibrils

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Sarcomeres

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24
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Actin myofilaments are also called

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thin filaments

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25
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3 components making up actin myofilaments

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actin, troponin, tropomyosin

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26
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Resemble two minute strands of pearls twisted together, have attachement sites for the myosin myofilaments

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Actin myofilaments

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27
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____ molecules are attached at specific intervals along the actin myofilaments which have binding sites for Ca2+

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Troponin

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28
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______ filaments are located along the groove between the twisted strands of actin myofilament subunits

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Tropomyosin

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29
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Myosin myofilaments are also called

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thick myofilaments

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30
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These resemble bundles of minute golf clubs

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Myosin myofilaments

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31
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3 important properties of myosin heads

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  1. The heads can bind to attachment sites on the actin myofilaments
  2. they can bend and straighten during contraction
  3. they can break down ATP, releasing energy
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32
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Basic structural and functional unit of skeletal muscle

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Sarcomere

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33
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Smallest portion of skeletal muscle capable of contracting

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Sarcomere

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34
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A network of protein fibers forming an attachment site for actin myofilaments

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Z disk “Zwischensheibe”

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35
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Consists of only actin myofilaments, spans each Z disk and ends at the myosin myofilaments

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I band “Isotropic”

36
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A darker, central region in each sarcomere

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A band “Anisotropic”

37
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Second light zone in the center of each sarcomere which consists of only myosin myofilaments

38
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The dark staining band where myosin myofilaments are anchored in the center of the sarcomere

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M line “Mittelscheibe”

39
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Inside of cell membranes is negatively charged compared to outside of the cell membrane

40
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Charge difference that occurs because there is an uneven distribution of ions across the cell memberance

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Resting membrane potential

41
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3 reasons for the developing of resting membrane potential

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  1. The concentration of K+ inside the cell membrane is higher than the outside of the cell membrane
  2. The concentration of Na+ outside the cell membrane is higher that the inside of the cell membrane
  3. The cell membrane is more permeable to K+ than to Na+
42
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Inside of the cell membrane if positively charged

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Depolarization

43
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The change back to the resting membrane potential

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Repolarization

44
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The rapid depolarization and repolarization of the cell membrane

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Action potential

45
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Are specialized nerve cells that stimulate muscles to contract

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Motor neurons

46
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They generate action potentials that travel to skeletal muscle fibers

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Motor neurons

47
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Each branch of the axon of a motor neuron forms a junction with a muscle fiber called ____

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Neuromuscular junction

48
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Refers to the cell-to-cell junction between a nerve cell and either another nerve cell or an effector cell, such as in a muscle or a gland

49
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A single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates constitutes a ____

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motor unit

50
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An enlarged axon terminal

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Presynaptic terminal

51
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The apace between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle fiber membrane

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synaptic cleft

52
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Components of a Triad

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2 terminal cisternae and a T tubule

53
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Acts as a conduit that enables action potential to reach sarcoplasmic reticulum

54
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Muscle fiber membrane

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Postsynaptic cleft

55
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Small vesicles in each presynaptic terminal

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Synaptic vesicles

56
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Functions as a neurotransmitter, a molecule released by a presynaptic nerve cell that stimulates or inhibits a postsynaptic cell

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Acetylcholine

57
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Enzyme that rapidly breaks down the acetylcholine released into the synaptic cleft between the neuron and the muscle fiber

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Acetylcholinesterase

58
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The sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofilaments during contraction

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Sliding filament model of muscle contraction

59
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Is formed between the actin and myosin myofilaments when the exposed attachments sites on the sites of the actin myofilament bind to the heads of the myosin myofilaments

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Cross-bridges

60
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States that the threshold stimulus can cause a muscle to contract to the fullest or none at all

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Lucas Law or All or None Law

61
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Condition when a person dies and no ATP is available to release cross-bridges causing the muscles to stiffen

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Rigor mortis

62
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Is the contraction of a muscle fiber in response to a timulus

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muscle twitch

63
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A cycle of rapid contraction and relaxation occuring in a muscle fiber following the occurence/application of a neural stimulus to the muscle in vivo or application of electrical stimulus during experimentation/experimental setting

64
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The time between the application of a stimulus and the beginning of contraction

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lag phase or latent phase

65
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Is the time during which the muscle contracts

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Contraction phase

66
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The time during which the muscle relaxes

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Relaxation phase

67
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The force of contaction of individual muscle is increased by rapidly stimulating them

68
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A sustained contraction that occurs when the frequency of stimulation is so rapid that no relaxation occurs

69
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When the number of muscle fibers contracting is increased by increasing the number of motor units stimulated, and the muscle contracts with more force

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Recruitment

70
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Requires O2 and breaks down glucose to produce 38 ATP, CO2, and H2O

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Aerobic respiration

71
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Does not require O2, and results from the breakdown of glucose to yield 2 ATP and lactic acid

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Anaerobic respiration

72
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Provides a means for storing energy that can be used rapidly to hep maintain an adequate amount of ATP in a contracting muscle fiber

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Creatine phosphate

73
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A state of reduced work capacity

74
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Results when muscle fibers use ATP faster than they produce it and when the effectiveness of CA2+ to stimulate actin and myosin is reduced

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Muscular fatigue

75
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Occurs when there is too little ATP to bind to myosin myofilaments

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Physiological contracture

76
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Common type of fatigue that involves the central nervous syatem rather than the muscles themselves

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Psychological fatigue

77
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The length of the muscle does not change, but the amount of tension increases

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Isometric Contractions

78
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The amount of tension produced by the muscle is constant during the contraction, but the length of the muscle decreases

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Isotonic Contractions

79
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Isotonic contractions in which muscle tension increases as the muscle shortens

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Concentric contractions

80
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Isotonic contractions in which tension is maintained in a muscle, but the opposing resistance causes the muscle to lenghten

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Eccentric contractions

81
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The constant tension produced by body muscles over long periods of time

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Muscle tone

82
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Twitch fibers that contain type I myosin as the predominant or even exclusive type

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Slow-twitch fibers

83
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Twitch fibers that contain either type IIa or type IIb myosin myofilaments

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Fast-twitch fibers

84
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Enlargening of muscle fibers

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Hypertrophy

85
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Undifferentiated cells just below the endomysium

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Satellite cells

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