A/P Muscle And Nerve content Flashcards
What’s the function of skeletal muscle?
Movement of the body
Where is skeletal muscle?
Attached to bone, main meat of body
What is the function of cardiac muscle?
Pump blood
Where is cardiac muscle?
In the heart
What is the function of smooth muscle?
Regulates size of organs, forces fluid through tubes, controls the amount of light entering the eye, and produces goose bumps in skin
Where is smooth muscle?
Hollow organs, iris of eye, skin
Where is nervous tissue?
Brain, spinal cord, and ganglia
What is the function of neurons?
Transmit information by electrical charges-action potentials
What is the function neuroglia?
Support neurons, protect nervous system, produce specialized sheaths
What muscle cells are striated?
Skeletal and cardiac
What type of control is skeletal muscle under?
Voluntary
What type of control is cardiac muscle under?
Involuntary
What type of control is smooth muscle under?
Involuntary
What muscle cells have a single nucleus?
Smooth and cardiac
What is the dark band in cardiac muscle called that separates cells from each other but also has holes in it allowing it to communicate with the cell next to it?
Intercalated disk
