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The muscular system
Three types of muscle
• Smooth muscle is an involuntary muscle. Example – digestive system
• Cardiac muscle is an involuntary muscle found in the heart. Has pronounced striations.
• Skeletal muscle are voluntary muscles that are used to move bones.
Skeletal muscle contraction
• Muscles are arranged in opposing pairs.• Muscle fibers consist on myofibrils.• Myofibrils are made of actin and myosin
(protein) subunits.• A sarcomere is the functional unit of a muscle.
How do muscles move?
• Muscles move by contracting and then relaxing.
• Sliding filament theory is used to explain muscle contraction.
• http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp47/4702001.html
• How is a muscle contraction triggered?
Muscle fiber