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Notes from Powerpoint slides from class

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What attaches skeletal muscles to bones?   Tndones  
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What does insertion mean?   More moveable attachments.  
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What does origin mean?   Less movable attachment where insertions is pulled towards.  
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Contracting muscles cause what?   Tension on tendons which move bones at a joint.  
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What are flexors?   Decrease angle of joints.  
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What are extensors?   Increase angle of joints.  
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What is the prime mover of any skeletal muscle?   An agonist muscle.  
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What are antagonist muscles?   Flexors and extensors that act on the same joint to produce opposite actions.  
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Fibrous connectice tissue from tnedons forms sheaths called ____ that extend around and into skeletal muscles.   Epimysium.  
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Inside the muscle this connective tissue divides muscles into columns called?   Fascicles.  
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The connective tissue around fascicles is called what?   Perimysiums.  
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Muscle fibers are also called _____.   Muscle cells  
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Ensheathed by thin connective tissue layers is called?   Endomysium.  
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Plasma membranes are called?   Sarcolemma.  
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Muscle fibers are similar to other cells except thay are?   Multinucleate and striated.  
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What is the most distinctive feature of sketial musclesare?   It is striated.  
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Each muscle fiber is oacked with?   myofibrils.  
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Myofibrals are packed with?   Myofilaments.  
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Myofilamengts are filled with?   Thick and thin filaments  
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What are sarcomeres?   Contractile units of skelital muscles consisting of components between 2 Z discs.  
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What are M lines?   Structural proteins that anchor myosin during contractions/  
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What is Titin?   Elastic protein attaching myosin to Z disc that contributes to the elastic recoil of muscles.  
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