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Muscle System

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Epimysium   A sheath of fibrous elastic tissue surounding a muscle  
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Perimysium   The sheath of connective tissue surrounding a bundle of muscle fibers  
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Endomysium   The delicate connective tissue surrounding the individual muscular fibers within the smallest bundles.  
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Tendon   A flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone.  
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Muscle Fibers   Any of the elongated cells characteristic of muscle.  
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Myoblast   A myoblast is a type of embryonic progenitor cell that differentiates to give rise to muscle cells.  
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Sarcoplasm   the cytoplasm of striated muscle cells.  
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Transverse Tubules   transverse tubule is a deep invagination of the sarcolemma, which is the plasma membrane of skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle cells.  
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Action Pontential   the change in electrical potential associated with the passage of an impulse along the membrane of a muscle cell or nerve cell  
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Myofilaments   Myofilaments are the filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins. The principal types of muscle are striated muscle, obliquely striated muscle and smooth muscle.  
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Thin Filaments   made of the protein actin  
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Thick Filaments   Made of the protein myosin  
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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum   A membranous structure surrounding each myofibril  
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Triad   is formed by 1 T tubule and 2 Terminal cisterna  
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Cisternae   Concentrate Ca2 (via ion pumps) Release Ca2 into sarcomeres to begin muscle contraction  
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Sarcomeres   a structural unit of a myofibril in striated muscle, consisting of a dark band and the nearer half of each adjacent pale band.  
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Myofibrils   any of the elongated contractile threads found in striated muscle cells.  
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Striated   muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bundles, so that their different regions form stripes visible in a microscope. Muscles of this type are attached to the skeleton by tendons and are under voluntary control  
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Troponin   a globular protein complex involved in muscle contraction. It occurs with tropomyosin in the thin filaments of muscle tissue.  
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Tropomyosin   a protein involved in muscle contraction. It is related to myosin and occurs together with troponin in the thin filaments of muscle tissue.  
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Active Site   a region on an enzyme that binds to a protein or other substance during a reaction.  
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Actin   a protein that forms (together with myosin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells, and is also involved in motion in other types of cells  
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Myosin   a fibrous protein that forms (together with actin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells and is also involved in motion in other types of cells  
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Neuromuscular Junction   A neuromuscular junction is a synapse between a motor neuron and skeletal muscle. This lesson describes the events of synaptic transmission leading to contraction of skeletal muscle  
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Sarcolemma   the fine transparent tubular sheath that envelops the fibers of skeletal muscles.  
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