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Skeletal Muscular System

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3 types of muscle tissue   Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth  
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Excitability   Response to stimulus  
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Contractability   Shorten & exert tension  
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Extensibility   Can contract even when stretched  
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Elasticity   Rebound to original length after contraction  
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Produces movement of skeleton   Skeletal Muscle  
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Maintains posture and body position   Skeletal Muscle  
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Supports soft tissue   Skeletal Muscle  
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Guards orifices   Skeletal Muscle  
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Maintains body temp.   Skeletal Muscle  
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Epimysium   Surrounds WHOLE muscle  
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Perimysium   Connective tissue layer that surrounds COLLECTION of Muscle Fibers  
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Fasiculus   Connective tissue layer that has little compartments with compartments in it  
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Endomysium   Connective tissue layer that surrounds INDIVIDUAL muscle fibers  
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Tendons   connect muscle to bone; interwoven into periosteum and matrix of bone- forming a strong bond  
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Collagen bundles of these converge to form tendonds   Epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium  
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Aponeurosis   Thickened, Flattened TENDON  
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Skeletal Muscle Fiber   = Muscle Cell  
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Muscle Fiber/Cell   Large, cylindrical, multinucleated, long, striated, voluntary  
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Sacrolemma   Cell membrane  
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Transverse tubules (T-tubules)   invaginations of sacrolemma which carry electrical impulses  
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Sacroplasm   Cytoplasm of muscle cell.  
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Myofibrils   In sacroplasm, made up of myofilament/protein, (actin=thin, myosin= thick) Responsible for Contraction & Shortening.  
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Sacroplasmic Reticulum   Surrounds myofibrils in the sacroplasm of a muscle cell.  
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Sacromere   Smallest unit of muscle fiber in the sacroplasmic reticulum.  
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Attatched to the sacrolemma at each end of the cell   Myofibril (as long as the muscle cell)  
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A band   Thick filaments  
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I band   Thin filaments  
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Sliding Filament Theory   *Requires Calcium and ATP* Explains how muscle fiber exerts tension. Active sites on actin filaments. Head of myosin filament. Crossbridge of head of myosin to active site of actin. Attachment, pivot, detach (Ca gone), return  
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Neuromuscular Joint   Where each skeletal muscle fiber is stimulated by a nerve fiber. Chemical Communication  
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