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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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