Muscle Vocab

Neurotransmitter that binds at a motor end-plate to trigger depolarization

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Protein that makes up most of the thin myofilaments in a sarcomere muscle fiber

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Change in voltage of a cell membrane in response to a stimulus that results in transmission of an electrical signal; unique to neurons and muscle fibers

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Production of ATP in the presence of oxygen

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Formation of blood capillary networks

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Broad, tendon-like sheet of connective tissue that attaches a skeletal muscle to another skeletal muscle or to a bone

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Enzyme that hydrolyzes ATP to ADp

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Loss of structural proteins from muscle fibers

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Heart's ability to control its own contractions

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Regulatory protein that facilitates contraction in smooth muscles

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