Skeletal Muscle Tissue Flashcards
Epimysium
A sheath of fibrous tissue surrounding a muscle.
Perimysium
The sketch of. One time tissue surrounding. Bundle of muscle fibers.
Endomysium
Sheath that covers muscle fiber.
Muscle fascicle
A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by perimysium.
Aponeurosis
Wide fibers tissue that takes the place of a tendon in sheet like muscles.
Myosatellite
Precursors to skeletal muscle cells
Myoblast
An embryonic cell that becomes a cell of muscle fiber.
Muscle fiber
A form of striated muscle tissue which is under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system.
Sarcolemma
Sheath the envelops the fibers of skeletal muscles.
Sarcoplasm
The cytoplasm of started muscles cells.
Myofibril
Any of the elongated contractile threads found in striated muscle fibers.
Myofilaments
Filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins, myosin and actin.
Thick filaments
Primarily myosin.
Thin filaments
Actin
Sarcomere
A structural unit of a myofibril in striated, consisting of a dark band and the nearer half of each adjacent pale band.
Zone of overlap
When sarcoma rest of a muscle fiber are stretched to a longer length, the zone of overlaps shortens and fewer myosin heads can contact with thin filaments
A band
Dark band of the muscle sarcomere that corresponds to the thick myosin. The A band is situated on either side of the H zone. The area where contraction and relaxation occurs.
I band
The light band on either side of the Z line. Thin (actin) filaments are not overlapped by thick myosin filaments
Z-line
The borders that separate and link sarcomere said within a skeletal muscle.
Tendons
Connect muscle to bone
M-line
A fine line in the center of the A band of the sarcomere of striated muscle myofibrils.
H band
A pale zone sometimes seen traversing the center of the a band of a striated myofibril.
Actinin
Necessary for the attachment of actin filaments to the Z-line in skeletal muscle.
T-tubule
Continuous with sarcolemma and transmit electrical signals.