Muscle Vocab

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

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

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

Production of ATP in the presence of oxygen

Formation of blood capillary networks

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

Enzyme that hydrolyzes ATP to ADp

Loss of structural proteins from muscle fibers

Heart's ability to control its own contractions

Regulatory protein that facilitates contraction in smooth muscles