NROC64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: T-Tubule, Mitochondrion, Gastrocnemius Muscle

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Motor system has muscles and neurons that control them, to move things is all the mankind can do for such the sole executants is muscle, whether in whispering a syllable or in telling a forest . Sc contains motor programs for generation of coordinated movements and that these programs are accessed, executed, and modified by descending commands from the brain. Motor control has 2 parts: 1) sc"s command and control of coordinated muscle contraction, 2) brain"s command and control of motor programs in sc. Peripheral somatic motor system: joints, skeletal muscles, spinal motor neurons and how they communicate w/ each other. Muscles divided into 2 categories: smooth muscle: digestive tract, arteries and related structures. Enclosed by connective tissue sheath that forms tendons. Each muscle has 100s of muscle fibres (cells of skeletal muscle), innervated y 33 paired somites. These muscles, and parts of ns that control them = somatic motor system i. e. elbow joint.

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