10.A Muscle System






10.A.1 Functions

10.A.1.a support, mobility

“If you look right over these mountains,” Jeremy begun with a smug on his face, angling his right arm at a 90 degree angle and pushing his muscles up, “you’ll see these muscles that help Jeremy get the ladies.”

“You do not get the ladies…,” Miley responded.

“Ha! How did you know :P ,” Jeremy counter argued.

So you get the idea, Miley, muscles, that’s what this topics about!

“And talking about muscles, I recently did a Hannah Montana episode with The Rock,” Miley said.

“Oh really…,” Jeremy continued, a tad embarassed.

There are 3 types of muscle tissue: (1) skeletal muscle; (2) cardiac muscle; and (3) smooth muscle.

10.A.1.b peripheral circulatory assistance

10.A.1.c thermoregulation (shivering reflex)

10.A.2 Structural characteristics of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle; striated versus nonstriated

More info: http://www.pennhealth.com/health_info/animationplayer/muscle_types.html

http://www.wiley.com/college/pratt/0471393878/student/animations/actin_myosin/actin_myosin.swf

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/matthews/myosin.html

10.A.3 Nervous control

10.A.3.a motor neurons

10.A.3.b neuromuscular junctions, motor end plates

10.A.3.c voluntary and involuntary muscles

10.A.3.d sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation

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