Ch 11: Muscle tissue Flashcards
Functions of the muscular system
- Movement
- Stability
3. Control of openings - Heat production
- Glycemic control
Facia
Sheet of connective tissue that separates one muscle from neighboring muscles
Epimysium
Outermost fibrous Sheets surrounding entire muscle under fascia 
Perimysium
Thicker part surrounding fascicles
Endmysium
Fibrous tissue around each fiber
Universal characteristics of muscle
Excitability
Conductivity
Contractility
Extensibility
Elasticity
Types of muscle tissues
Skeletal muscles
Cardiac
Smooth
Plasma membrane of muscle cell
Sarcolemma
Cytoplasm of muscle cell
Sarcoplasm
Myofibrils
Pertinacious cords made of smaller myofilaments
Myoglobin
Read oxygen binding pigment; provides oxygen for muscular activity
Muscle cells have lots of which cellular organelle
Mitochondria
Muscle cells are multi nucleated or only have one nucleus?
Multinucleated 
Muscle version of endoplasmic reticulum, and what it helps to do
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Crucial for contractility and excited ability
Has calcium reservoir
And part of the sarcoplasmic reticulum That forms triad with T tubules
Terminal cisterns
Transverse T tubules
Electric lines; one muscle fiber to multiple muscle fibers