SMP 1 Flashcards
our skeletal muscles are composed of ?
bundles of fascicles
each fascicle is composed of linearly aligned ?
muscle fibers (myofiber)
T or F: Muscle fiber is a single, multi-mucleated, elongated cell
true
each muscle fibre is composed of many ?
myofibril
myofibrils have many ?
sacromere
what is a sacromere?
structural units of myofibrils that facilitate contraction and relaxation
what is the epimysium
the connective tissue sheath surrounding the whole muscle and extending from the tendons
what is the sheath surrounding each fascicle?
perimysium
what is the sheath that surround each individual muscle fiber?
endomysium
what is the cell membrane of the muscle cell?
sarcolemma
each myofibril composed of many ?
myofilaments
what are the contractile proteins of the muscle?
actin and myosin
what are the regulatory proteins of the muscle?
tropomyosin and troponin
sacromeres consist of interdigitating myofilaments called
thin filaments and thick filaments
thin filaments are made of ?
actin
thick filaments are made of?
myosin
the striated appearance of skeletal muscle is due to ?
the overlapping of thick and thin filaments
each sarcomere is bound by the ?
Z-disk
thin filament attaches to the
Z-disk
at the center of the sarcomere is the ?
M-line
thick filaments lie between the
thin filaments
what are light bands (I bands)
regions of thin filaments that do not overlap with thick filaments
what is at the center of the light bands?
the Z-disk
what are dark bands (A bands)
the region where the thick and thin filaments do overlap