Muscle physiology terminology
Across
- 2. A plateau phase of muscle contraction
- 6. Region of sarcomere composed of thin filaments
- 7. unit A motor neuron and all of the fibres it innervates (2 words)
- 8. Found in thick filaments in muscle fibres
- 9. Muscle contraction with no change in length
- 10. Adding together of twitches that occur when a muscle is stimulated at high frequency
- 11. Basic repeating units that make up myofibrils
- 14. Immediate high-energy molecule in muscle (2 words)
- 18. principle The relationship between the size of motor units and the order of recruitment (2 words)
- 19. reticulum Organelle in muscle fibres that stores calcium (2 words)
- 22. Mechanical response of a muscle to a single action potential
- 23. Type of muscle fibre with high myosin ATPase activity (2 words)
- 26. An oxygen-binding protein found in some muscle fibres
- 27. Lengthening muscle contraction
- 28. period Time between a stimulus and a response (2 words)
- 29. Type of filaments composed of myosin
- 30. Protein that binds calcium and initiate the crossbridge cycle
- 32. Shortening muscle contraction
- 33. An increase in the number of active neurons
- 35. Decrease in muscle's ability to produce force
Down
- 1. Rodlike elements that contain a muscle's contractile machinery
- 3. tubule Structure that transmits action potentials from the sarcolemma into the cell's interior (2 words)
- 4. oxidative Type of muscle cells that are used in endurance exercise (2 words)
- 5. Plasma membrane of muscle fibres
- 6. Twitch during which a muscle shortens and lifts a constant load
- 12. Part of thick filaments responsible for producing motion that causes muscle contraction
- 13. Mechanism that drives muscle contraction (2 words)
- 15. Process of muscle contraction whereby thick and thin filaments move past each other (2 words)
- 16. Region of sarcomere with no overlapping filaments
- 17. Protein that blocks myosin-binding sites on thin filaments
- 18. muscle Type of muscle that is connected to bone (2 words)
- 20. Type of muscle fibre with high myoglobin content (2 words)
- 21. Bundles of muscle fibres
- 24. Region of sarcomere composed of thick filaments
- 25. muscle Type of muscle found in internal organs
- 31. Found in thin filaments in muscle fibres
- 34. Type of filaments composed of actin