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Vocabulary

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Epimysium   a sheath of fibrous elastic tissue surrounding 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—compare epimysium.  
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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 Fiber   any of the elongated cells characteristic of muscle.  
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Myoblast   a type of embryonic progenitor cell that differentiates to give rise to muscle cells. Skeletal muscle fibers are made when Myoblasts fuse together; muscle fibers therefore have multiple nuclei  
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Sarcoplasm   the cytoplasm of striated muscle cells.  
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Transverse Tubules   a deep invagination of the sarcolemma, which is the plasma membrane of skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle cells  
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Action Potential   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   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   one of the contractile elements in muscular fibers and other cells; in skeletal muscle, the actin filaments are about 7.5 nm wide and 1 mcm long, and attach to the transverse Z filaments.  
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Thick Filaments   one of the contractile elements in skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle fibers; in skeletal muscle, the filament is about 15 nm thick and 1.5 mcm long.  
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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum   a system of membrane-bound tubules that surrounds muscle fibrils, releasing calcium ions during contraction and absorbing them during relaxation.  
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Triad   The junction between the t tubules and the sarcoplasmic reticulum in striated muscle.  
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Cisternae   An ultramicroscopic space or channel occurring between the membranes of the flattened sacs of the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi complex, or the two membranes of the nuclear envelope.  
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Sarcomeres   are divided into bands of filaments made of actin or myosin.  
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Myofibrils   are filaments of the proteins myosin and actin; these filaments slide past one another as the muscle contracts and expands.  
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Strated    
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Troponin   is a complex of three regulatory proteins (troponin C, troponin I, and troponin T) that is integral to muscle contraction in skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle, but not smooth muscle.  
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Tropomyosin   is a two-stranded alpha-helical coiled coil protein found in cell cytoskeletons.  
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Active site   is a small port in an enzyme where substrate molecules bind and undergo a chemical reaction  
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Actin   is the most abundant protein in most eukaryotic cells. It is highly conserved and participates in more protein-protein interactions than any known protein.  
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Myosin   are a large superfamily of motor proteins that move along actin filaments, while hydrolyzing ATP.  
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Newromusclar Junction   is a place in the body where the axons of motor nerves meet the muscle, allowing them to transmit messages from the brain that cause the muscle to contract and relax.  
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Sarcolemma   (Sarco (from Sarx) from Greek; Flesh, and Lemma from Greek; sheath.) also called the myolemma, is the cell membrane of a striated muscle fiber cell.  
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