What are the properties and components of skeletal muscle?
what are the cells like in skeletal muscles
What are the properties and components of cardiac muscle?
What are the properties and components of smooth muscle?
what are the cells like in cardiac muscles
what are the cells like in smooth muscles
single, fusiform, uninucleate, no striations
What are afferent nerves?
sensory
- messages caried from outer parts of body brain
what are efferent nerves
motor
- messages leaving the brain to parts of the body, causing action to take place
what do nerves use for signals?
potassium and sodium
whats the cell body of the nerve
contains nuclei and organelles, located in CNS and PNS
what is the axon
what is a dendrite
what are the neurotransmitters used to polarize nerves to send messages?
acetylcholine and epinephrine
what is the myelin sheath
allows messages to travel faster
what are organelles?
“little organs”
- the functioning components in cells
- aid in the vital functions of cells
what is the mitochondria
what are cristae
what is the endoplasmic reticulum?
what is the rough ER
what is smooth ER?
aids in metabolism of carbs, detox, production of lipids
what is the golgi apparatus?
what are lysosomes?
what are microfilaments?
what are microtubules?