Muscle

Question 1

smooth muscle

Answer 1

1.in walls of hallow organs, vessles, respiratory
2. Cell characteristic: tapered at each end
3. involentary
4.produces peristalsis; contracts and relaxes slowly, may sustain contraction

Question 2

cardiac muscle

Answer 2

wall of the heart
cell characteristic: branching networks; special membranes between cells. single nucleus. lightly striated

Question 3

Skeletal muscle

Answer 3

Attached to bone
cell characteristic: Long and cylindrical; multinucleated; heavily striated
3. Stimulated by nervous system; contracts and relaxes rapidly

Question 4

satallite cells

Answer 4

sandwiched between the endomysium and cell mebrane of myocytes

Question 5

endomysium

Answer 5

thin connective tissue membrane that surrounds each muscle fiber

Question 6

perimysium

Answer 6

the sheath of connective tissue surrounding a bundle of muscle fibers.

Question 7

epimysium

Answer 7

a sheath of fibrous elastic tissue surrounding a muscle.

Question 8

muscle

Answer 8

The epimysium and all its contents

Question 9

myofilaments

Answer 9

contractile proteins: actin and myosin

Question 10

sarcoplasm

Answer 10

cytoplasm

Question 11

sarcolemma

Answer 11

plasma membrane

Question 12

sarcoplasmic recticulm

Answer 12

smooth edonpasmic reticulumn