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3 Types of muscle   smooth, cardiac, skeletal  
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What is a Muscle Fiber   a single muscle cell  
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What is Endomysium   it coats the muscle fiber, help give it support  
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What are Fascicles   groups of muscle fibers  
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What is the Perimysium   outer layer that wraps around Fascicles  
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What is Epimysium   A tissue that wraps groups of Fascicles together  
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Sacrolemma   like plasma membrane for muscle fibers  
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Sarcoplasm   like the cytoplasm for muscle fibers  
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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum   Where calcium is stored  
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Consists of thick Filaments (myosin) and thin Filaments (actin)   Myofilaments  
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What is required for muscles to move?   ATP (energy)  
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The connection between a motor nueron and a muscle fiber is called   a nueromuscular junction  
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When an impulse reaches the end of a motor neuron, it causes the release of   acetylcholine (ACh)  
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ACh is known as a   neurotransmitter  
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Continuous state of partial muscle contraction is called   Muscle tone  
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What causes muscle tone?   posture, standing, holding your head up  
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What is a motor unit?   A neuron and all the fibers it stimulates.  
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What factors affect muscle Contraction?   Frequency of stimuli, strength of nerve signals, and type of contraction.  
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Isometric contraction   muscle length does not change  
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isotonic contraction   lifting and changing muscle length  
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prime mover   The muscle that triggers a movement  
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end of muscle that attaches to more stable bone   origin  
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end of muscle that attaches to more freely moving bone   insertion  
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muscle that assist the prime movers   synergists  
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balances the use of a muscle   antagonists  
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