Exam 2 Flashcards
striated and voluntary
skeletal muscle
striated and involuntary
cardiac muscle
not striated and involuntary
smooth muscle
skeletal muscle cell
muscle fiber
bundles of thick and thin filaments
myofibrils
attached to bone and innervated by somatic motor neurons
skeletal muscle
attached to one another and controlled by autonomic nervous system
cardiac, smooth muscle
activation of force generating sites in cross bridges
contraction
deactivation of force generating sites
relaxation
composed of myoisn
thick filaments
made of 2 heavy chains and 4 light chains
myosin
attach thick and thin filaments
cross-bridges
made of actin, troponin, tropomyosin, nebuiln
thin filaments
play a role in thin filament assembely
nebulin
unit of repeating pattern of thick and thin filaments
sarcomere
lies between ends of a band of 2 adjacent sarcomeres; contain only thing filaments
I bands
narrow light band in the center of A band; contain only thick filaments
H zone
center of the H zone
m- line
boundary of each sarcomere; anchor end of each thin filament
z line
prevents excessive stretch and anchor thick filament together
titin
consist of a single motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates and thus controls
motor unit
response of a singe muscle fiber to a brief stimulus
simple twitch
time between reaching threshold and onset of contraction; AP spreads along muscle and allow calcium to be released from SR
latent period
modified cytoplasm outside SR
sacroplasm