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Muscle/ Nervous

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Skeletal muscle   striated, voluntary  
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Smooth muscle   non-striated, involuntary, single/ multiunit  
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Cardiac muscle   striated, involuntary, autorhythmicity  
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Basic functions of muscle   movement, maintain posture, heat generation  
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Characteristics of muscle   excitability, contract-ability, extensibility, elasticity  
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Sarcolemma   plasma membrane with t-tubules  
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Sarcoplasm   cytoplasm of muscle cell  
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum   smooth er, calcium ion storehouse  
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Myofibrils   organized proteins responsible for contraction  
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Myofilaments   cytoskeleton  
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I band   light band, thin filaments, myosin  
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A band   dark band, thick filaments, actin  
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Z line   middle  
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H band   center area  
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Myosin properties needed for contraction   -ATP site closely associated with actin binding site -Position of the myosin -release of ADP, so muscle can relax & new ATP can bind  
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Troponin- Tropomyosin complex   serve as a switch for muscle contraction and muscle relaxation tropomyosin must be moved for myosin cross bridges to attach actin- requires ca++  
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Motor unit   a lower motor neuron & all of the skeletal muscle fibers stimulated by branches of its axon, larger units= more force, smaller units= finer degree of neural control  
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Muscle twitch   occurs when muscle is stimulated with a single electric shock, a quick contraction then relaxation  
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Latent period   time stimulus is applied until contraction begins  
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Contraction   beginning of contraction to peak  
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Relaxation   peak to end of contraction  
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All or none   a given response will be produced to its maximum extent in response to any stimulus equal to or greater than threshold response ex- action potential to twitch  
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Temporal summation   asynchronous contraction, twitches alternate to produce a continuous maintenance of force  
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Spatial summation   recruitment, more cells = more force  
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Elastic components function   smooth out muscle behavior, absorbs some of the tension as a muscle contracts, elastic recoil help muscle return to resting length  
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slow twitch   small, rich in myoglobin (oxygen), sustain aerobic  
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fast twitch   larger, lots of thick & thin, low myoglobin (oxygen), less blood flow, fast to fatigue  
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Golgi tendon organs   can stop a muscle contraction, protective device, senses the tension muscle exerts on its tendons  
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Muscle spindles   senses muscle length, muscle that require the finest degree of control have the most extrafusal: insert into tendons on each side intrafusal: several thin muscle cells in connectrive tissue sheath  
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Final common pathway   motor pathway, consisting of the motor neurons by which nerve impulses from many central sources pass to a muscle  
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Smooth muscle cells   filaments in a spiraling pattern, no striations, can stretch greatly, big active range, gap junctions  
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single unit/ multiple unit   single: cells work as a collective group, lots of gap junctions multiple: each cell functions independently, few gap junctions ex- eye  
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