KINESIOL 1YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cardiac Muscle Cell, Interventricular Septum, Interatrial Septum

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Contains actin & myosin myofilaments that form the sarcomeres & has the sarcolemma with openings of the transverse tubules (movement of ap into the cell) Intercalated disks: regions with specialized cell-cell contacts; folds in the sarcolemma that hold the cells together; allows for cells to be closely held together. Contains desmosomes which are plasma membrane structures that are used to hold the cells together ; act like staples to keep cells together when muscles are contracting. Sarcomeres between cells are not connected so the desmosomes need to be super strong to pull the neighbouring cell along with the contracting cell. Gap junctions are also found in the disks; where we have electrical synapses; used so that the cardiac muscle of atria & ventricles wind up behaving like a single unit, essentially connected in 1 way or another. Electrically, cardiac muscle of the atria & of the ventricles behaves as single unit.

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