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-Pigment in muscle cells that reduce muscles need for constant blood supply
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| -Pigment found in red blood cells that transport oxygen into blood stream |
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| -Minimal stimulus needed to produce a muscle contraction |
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| -When muscle looses ability to contract |
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| -Immeditalely following contraction during which a muscle fiber cant respond |
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| -time between stimulus & responding contractions |
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| -Single contraction of a muscle fiber |
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| -wave like motion, transmission of pulses from cell to cell |
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| What is orgin & insertion? |
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Orgin- immovable end
Insertion- moveable end |
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| -Responsible for producing a action |
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| -Resist prime mover and can cause movement in opp. direction |
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| -Where axon & muscle fiber meet |
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| -impulses from brain to body parts |
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| -the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle |
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-The tiny space between two nerve cells across which the acetylcholine diffuses.
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| -store various neurotransmitters that are released at the synapse |
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| -transmission of signals from one neuron to the next across synapses |
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| -all of the muscle cells that are controlled by a single motor neuron |
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