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Tendon collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone.
Skeletal Muscle a type of muscle tissue attached to bones by tendons
Cardiac Muscle heart and shit
Smooth Muscle muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils are not highly ordered, occurring in the gut and other internal organs and not under voluntary control.
Sarcomere a structural unit of a myofibril in striated muscle, consisting of a dark band and the nearer half of each adjacent pale band.
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum a specialized endoplasmic reticulum in muscle cells that acts as a storage and release site for calcium ions
Calcium Ions (Ca+2) a positively charged calcium ion
Actin filaments hin, flexible protein fibers that are a crucial part of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells
Myosin filaments thick filaments in muscle, composed of hundreds of myosin molecules that are arranged in a parallel, staggered array
Troponin sarcomeric Ca2+ regulator for striated (skeletal and cardiac) muscle contraction
Tropomyosin a two-stranded alpha-helical, coiled coil protein found in many animal and fungal cells
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) money
Muscles must have at least 2 points of attachment
The attachment that moves is called the Insertion; the attachment that remains stationary is the Origin
Muscles must cross at least 1 joint
Muscles work in opposing pairs: A muscle that decreases the angle of the joint is called a Flexor; a muscle that increases the angle of a joint is called an extensor
Muscles can only pull / contract to get shorter.
Macroscopic striations show the direction of muscle contraction.
Muscle Fatigue tired
Electromyogram (EMG) a diagnostic procedure that measures the electrical activity of muscles
Tetany a condition characterized by involuntary muscle contractions, spasms, and tremors caused by low levels of calcium in the blood
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