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What are groups of skeletal muscle cells called?
Muscle Fibers
What groups are muscle fibers arranged into?
fascicles
What are the long cells surrounded by their own plasma membrane called?
Sarcolemma
80% of the sarcoplasm (cytoplasm) is filled with small cylindrical organelles called _________
myofibrils
Which filament is composed of the contractile protein myosin?
Thick filament
which filament is composed of the contractile protien actin?
Thin filament
What is associated with the regulatory proteins troponin and tropomyosin?
thick and thin filaments
what causes striations?
arrangement of fibers
A dark region composed of thick and thin filaments is _________?
A bands
bisecting the A band is a lighter region called ______
H zone
the H zone is bisected by the ________
M line
What light region is composed of thin filament?
I bands
what bisects the I band?
Z disc
The space from one Z disc to another Z disc is called ___________?
sacromere
What contains a full A band and 2 half I bands?
sacromere
Sarcoplasm is filled with _____, _______ and modified _______________ called sarcoplasmic reticulum
nuclei, mitochondria (modified) endoplasmic reticulum
what wraps around the myofibrils?
sarcoplasmic reticulum
The sarcoplasmic reticulum swell at certain points along the myofibril to form a __________
terminal cisternae
Running down the middle of each terminal cisternae is an inward extension called a _________
T-tubule
A group of 2 terminal cisternae and a T-tubule is called a _____
triad
Fascicles are covered by connective tissue called _________
perimysium
Bundles are covered by a connective tissue sheath called the ______
epimysium
each fiber is surrounded by their own extracellular matrix called __________
endomysium
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BIO 163
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Updated
2010-09-22T13:44:51Z
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