Muscle

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What is striated muscle?

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a regular arrangement of actin and myosin filaments, has a highly ordered appearance

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Where is smooth muscle located?

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In walls of tubular organs and blood vessels

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What are the defining characteristics of skeletal muscle?

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Striated, voluntary, multi-nucleated, peripheral nuclei

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This is the functional unit of a muscle

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Sarcomere

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What is the order of origin in the muscle?

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Proteins, filaments, sarcomeres, myofibrils, fibers (cells), fasciculi, muscle

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A-bands are known as what and reflect light in this way

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Anisotropic, refract different planes of light differently, making them DARK in appearance

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I-bands are known as what and reflect light in this way

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Isotropic, refract all planes of light equally, showing up as LIGHT under a microscope

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Individual connective tissue around one muscle cell is ____, CT tissue surrounding a cluster of muscle cells is ____, and the CT tissue surrounding an entire sarcomere is ____.

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Endomysium, perimysium, and epimysium

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These are a form of neuromuscular junctions that contain areas of highly folded sarcolemmas that increase the area of the synaptic cleft

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Motor end plates

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These are specialized muscle receptors that sense a degree of stretch of a muscle and its length change

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Muscle spindles