Anatomy and Physiology I - Muscle Tissue

Flashcards covering key concepts and terminology from the lecture on muscle tissue.

The four primary tissue types in the body include .

muscle, nervous, epithelial, and connective.

Skeletal muscle is responsible for the skeleton.

moving.

Each skeletal muscle is an organ that consists of various integrated .

tissues.

The functional unit of a muscle fiber is called .

sarcomere.

Calcium ions released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum initiate .

muscle contraction.

Skeletal muscle fibers are covered by .

endomysium.

The is the protein that binds to calcium ions during muscle contraction.

troponin.

Muscle fibers can be classified as red muscle fibers or muscle fibers.

white.

At rest, muscle fibers have a resting membrane potential of about millivolts.

-90.

The process of converting lactic acid back into glucose occurs in the .

liver.