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Skeletal Muscle - ✔✔Voluntary muscle with striations and multiple nuclei
Smooth Muscle - ✔✔Involuntary muscle with tapered cells and one nucleus
Cardiac Muscle - ✔✔Involuntary muscle with branching cells and striations
Sarcolemma - ✔✔Muscle cell membrane allowing signal transmission
T-Tubules - ✔✔Invaginations in sarcolemma for signal delivery
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum - ✔✔Stores and releases calcium for muscle contraction
Myofibrils - ✔✔Contractile organelles within muscle cells
Troponin - ✔✔Regulatory protein binding calcium for muscle contraction
, Neuromuscular Junction - ✔✔Location where nerve signal triggers muscle
contraction
Motor Unit - ✔✔Motor neuron and the muscle fibers it controls
Endomysium - ✔✔Connective tissue around individual muscle fibers
Myosin - ✔✔Thick filament in sarcomeres for muscle contraction
Actin - ✔✔Thin filament with myosin-binding sites for muscle contraction
ACh Receptors - ✔✔Proteins on motor end plate binding acetylcholine for signal
transmission
Sarcomere - ✔✔Contractile unit of muscle composed of thick and thin filaments
Excitation-Contraction Coupling - ✔✔Linking nerve signal to muscle contraction
via calcium release
Resting Membrane Potential - ✔✔Difference in charges across muscle cell
membrane at rest
Sarco Plasmic Reticulum - ✔✔Stores calcium ions for muscle contraction
Skeletal Muscle Organization - ✔✔Consists of thousands of muscle fibers
connected by tendons