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skeletal muscle anatomy

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what type of muscles are striated?

skeletal and cardiac

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what type of muscles are contracted voluntarily?

skeletal

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what is the outside of the entire skeletal muscle fibers called?

epimysium

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what surrounds the muscle fascicles?

perimysium

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what surrounds each muscle fiber?

endomysium

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what is the name of a muscle cell?

fiber

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what muscle structure gives muscles their red pigment?

myoglobin

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what is the contractile unit of muscles?

sarcomere

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what is the thin filament?

actin

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what is the thick filament?

myosin

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what structure has active sites that allow myosin head binding during contraction?

actin

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what structures stores and releases calcium?

sarcoplasmic reticulum (aka SR)

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what structures transmits electrical impulses?

transverse tubules (aka t tubules)

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what is the smallest structure in muscles?

myofilaments

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what accounts for 80% of muscle cell volume?

myofibrils

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what stores glycogen?

glycosomes

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