KINS 2203- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Chapter 1: structure and function of exercising muscle. Walls of blood vessels to allow them to constrict/dilate to regulate blood flow. Walls of organs to move food through body, expel urine, or give birth: cardiac, skeletal. Attach to bone to help move it. Surrounds whole muscle to hold it together. Muscle bellies divided into compartments/transverse fibrous bands. Many muscle fibers make up each muscle. Plasma membrane that surrounds each muscle fiber. Part of the sarcolemma , larger unit (made up of plasmalemma and basement membrane) Tendons are made up of connective tissue to carry the force made by muscle fibers to the bones to allow motiontendon attaches fibers to bone. Looks like folds on the fiber when the fiber is contracted or rested, but unfolds when the fiber stretches. The folds help to allow stretching of the fiber without bothering the plasmalemma.
