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3 major classes of muscle cells (myofibers) |
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skeletal, cardiac, smooth |
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thick & thin myofilaments |
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thin myofilaments proteins |
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actin, troponin, tropomyosin (except smooth muscle) |
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contractile proteins form thread-like structures |
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myofilaments (muscle threads) |
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thick myofilamints are composed of what protein? |
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bundles of myosin molecules |
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despite being contractile proteins; actin/myosin cause filaments to slide past each other |
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small cylindrical structures (little muscle fibers) |
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in order to function; skeletal muscle cell must have contat w... |
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axon branches which end in small cluster on a single muscle cell |
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myoneural junction or "motor end plate" |
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single motor neuron + all the muscle cells it innervates (supplies) |
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wrapped in myelin sheath-produced by schwann ell |
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indentation in sarcolemma which houses axon terminal |
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ruffled look of sole plate thrown into small folds; increases surface area |
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manufactured and packaged in sarcoplasm of axon terminals |
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