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Actin


A contractile protein that is called a thin filament.





Cause of Hypertrophy?

"Pumping Iron"
Hamstrings consist of
bicept femoris, semitendinous, and semimenbraneosus
striated muscle

Skeletal Muscle

Smooth Muscle is

Involuntary Muscle

The haversian system (osteon)-

the cynlindrical arrangement of dense bone.

Affect the activity of the epiphyseal disc-

Estrogen, progesterone & growth hormone

Quadricepts Femoris (muscles)-

Rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius
The quadricepts femoris and the hamstrings run along the?

run along the side.
Frontalis Muscle

"surprised look" flat muscle that covers the forehead and raises the eye brows.
Toe Dancer Muscle-
Gastruchemius and soleus
Tendon-

cord of connective tissue, that connects muscle to the bone.

Sarcomeres-

series of contractile units tha make up each myofibril. (each unit extends from z line to z line.)





sarcoplasmic reticulum

The site of calcium storage in a relaxed skeletal muscle .

Acetylcholine is released from the prejunctional membrane in response to the ______?

Nerver Impulse.
Responsible for muscle relaxation?

Calcium being pumped into the sarcoplasmic reticulum.

Tetany

Muscle that remains in a contracted state.

Vastus Lateralis is located ?

Thigh

Muscle that requires stimulation by a somatic motor nerve?

Skeletal Muscle

"slides" in the sliding filament hypothesis?
Actin & Myosin
Most related to actin and myosin?

-contractile poteins


-from force-generating cross- bridges.


-sliding filaments



Muscle relaxation occurs (when)?
calcium is pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum
As electrical signals travel through the T- tubules, it causes?


The release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum



somatic motor nerve (supplies the muscle f the thight) has been severed, then the person will be
unable to walk.
event that occurs within neuromuscular junction?
binding of acetylcholine to the nicotinic receptor on the muscle membrane
Osteociastic activity

raises blood calcium levels.