Smooth & Cardiac

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  1. 4. Muscle degeneration and loss of mass
  2. 6. The smooth muscles in large airways to lungs and in large arteries, Responds to neural stimulation w/ graded contracts that involve recruitment
  3. 10. Smooth muscle is regulated at the level of ______ phosphorylation rather than troponin binding
  4. 11. Muscle _______ refers to group of inherited muscle destroying diseases that generally appear during childhood
  5. 12. _______ nerve fibers innervate smooth muscle
  6. 13. In smooth muscle excitation coupling Ca2+ enters sarcoplasm; interacts with ______
  7. 15. _____ bodies and intermediate filaments cover smooth muscle cells
  8. 17. _____ junctions connect adjacent smooth muscle fibers
  9. 18. Age-related loss of both muscle fiber size and number of muscle fibers
  10. 20. Part of the nerve fibers in smooth muscle, releases neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft
  11. 21. The type of smooth muscle that is: Found in walls of all hollow organs except heart, Electrically couples by gap junctions and so contract as a unit, Respond to various chemical stimuli
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  1. 1. Acute infectious disease caused by bacteria, resulting in persistent painful spasms of some skeletal muscles
  2. 2. This trait describes cardiac and smooth muscle, not skeletal, where contraction and relaxation of muscle is coordinated
  3. 3. Disorder where Actin and myosin become irreversibly cross-linked, producing stiffness which gradually disappears as muscle proteins break down after death
  4. 5. The ability to maintain contractibility over a wide range of lengths
  5. 7. ______ contraction refers to the process of muscle contraction in smooth muscle that occurs in a rapid and intense manner, characterized by brief periods of tension followed by relaxation
  6. 8. The intestine has a longitudinal layer and a ____ layer of smooth muscle
  7. 9. Skeletal muscle is voluntary, Cardiac and smooth are _____
  8. 10. ______ gravis is a disease characterized by drooping upper eyelids, difficulty swallowing/talking and generalized muscle weakness due to destroyed Ach receptors
  9. 14. Smooth muscle relaxes in response to ____
  10. 16. The only connective tissue component on smooth and cardiac muscle
  11. 19. Smooth muscle cells have membrane invaginations called ______