BIOM 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Myocyte, Endomysium, Epimysium
16 Aug 2016
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Unit 3: muscles: chapter 6: the muscular system: Both of these are responsible for essential all body movement. The 3 types are different in cell structures, body location, and how they"re stimulated to contract. Skeletal and smooth muscle cells are elongated and they"re called muscle fibers. Terminology: prefixes of myo- and mys- ( muscle ) and sacro- ( flesh ) is when the muscle is being referred to such as muscle cells=cytoplasm=sacroplasm. Types of muscle types in detail: skeletal muscle: Packaged into organs called skeletal muscles that attaches to the body"s skeleton. Helps to form smoother, contours of the body. They"re huge, cigar-shaped, multinculeate cells, it is the largest one out of the fiber types. These muscles contract rapidly, they must rest after short periods of activity. This muscle can also be known as striated muscle based on it"s obvious stripes and voluntary muscle because, it is the only muscle type that is subject to conscious.
