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Muslce

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Contractility   the ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force  
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Excitability   the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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Extensibility   the ability to be stretched  
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Elasticity   ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched.  
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What are four major functional characteristics of skeletal muscle?   contractility, excitability, extensibility, and elasticity.  
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What do muscles help produce?   heat essential for maintenance of normal body temperature.  
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Each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called?   epimysium  
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Is another connective tissue located outside the epimysium.   fascia  
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A muscle is composed of numerous visible bundles called fasciculi(fascicle), which are surrounded by loose connective tissue called?   perimysium  
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The fasciculi are composed of single muscle cells called?   fibers  
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Each fiber is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the?   endomysium  
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The cytoplasm of each fiber is filled with?   myofibrils  
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What are myofibrils?   A threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other.  
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Myofibrils consists of what two major kinds of protein fibers?   Actin myofilaments and myosin myofilaments.  
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Actin and myosin myofilaments form highly ordered units called?   sarcomeres.  
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What are actin myofilaments?   thin myofilaments. They resemble 2 minute strands of pearls twisted together.  
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What are myosin myofilaments?   thick myofilaments. They resemble bundles of minute golf clubs.  
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What is a sarcomere?   the basic structural and functional unity of the muscle.  
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Each sarcomere extends from what?   from one Z line to another Z line.  
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On each side of the Z line is a light area called what?   I band  
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What does the I band consist of?   actin  
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The A band extends what?   the length of the myosin.  
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What is the darker central region in each sarcomere?   the A band.  
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In the center of each sarcomere is another light area called what?   the H zone.  
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What does the H zone consists of?   It consists of only myosin  
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The myosin myofilaments are anchored in the center of the sarcomere at a dark staining band called the?   M line.  
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The charge difference across the membrane is called the?   resting membrane potential.  
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The brief reversal back of the charge is called?   action potential  
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What are motor neurons?   Are nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers.  
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What do axons enter?   the muscles and branch  
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Each branch that connects to the muscle forms a ?   neuromuscular junction or synapse  
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A single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates are called a ?   motor unit  
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What is a neuromuscular junction formed by?   an enlarged nerve terminal resting in an indentation of the muscle cell membrane.  
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The enlarged nerve terminal is the?   presynaptic terminal  
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The space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell is the?   synaptic cleft  
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Each presynaptic terminal contains what?   synaptic vesicles.  
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Synaptic vesicles secretes a neurotransmitter called what?   acetylcholine.  
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What diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to the postsynaptic terminal causing a change in the postsynaptic cell?   acetylcholine  
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