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A group of conducting cells control heart muscle contraction and is known as the?
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pacemaker cells
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What is involved in muscle contraction in larger organisms?
Involved in muscle contraction in larger organisms is microfilament. Structures found only in plant cells are plastids. A type of plastid is chloroplasts.
What is the job of a leg muscle cell?
Receive stimulatory impulses to contract and inhibitory impulses to stop contraction from the neuromuscular junction. This contraction is carried out by Ca2+, ATP and the actin and myosin proteins in the cells, forming a sarcomere. By contracting and relaxing as a syncytium, the leg muscle can control the joint(s) it crosses and produce movement.
What makes muscle cells specialized?
Muscle cells, like all cells, are specialised to carry out their specific functions. Muscle cells need relatively large numbers of mitochondria. This is because they respire more than most other types of cell, in order to release the energy for muscle contraction, and hence movement.
Is glycogen stored in muscle cells is used primarily to provide glucose for red blood cells?
Doubtful. One would think that any glycogen stored in muscle cells would be producing mitochondrial ATP for use in the sarcomere, the muscle contraction unit.
What are the characteristics of cardiac muscle?
Spindle-shaped cells with one centrally located nucleus and no externally visible striations(bands). Found mainly in the walls of hollow organs.
What cells make you move?
It's muscle cells that carry out the movement, and nerve cells that control the contraction of the muscle cells. Bone cells are also involved indirectly, by providing the framework for the muscles to attach to.
Muscle tissue consists of cells that are highly specialized for the function of?
Contraction.
The force of a muscle contraction is not affected by?
the amount of ATP in the muscle cells
How are cheek cells different from muscle cells?
Skeletal muscle cells are very thin, and lean. They are designed for contraction and expansion.
What energy sources for the contraction of muscle cells?
ATP
What does the contraction of cells in muscle tissue allow muscles to do?
movement
What is the function of the muscle cells in an animal?
Locomotion , movement , contraction etc .
What is the definition for myogenic?
myogenic refers to the contraction of cardiac muscle cells.
Why muscle cells have more mitochondria than other kinds of eukaryotic cells have?
mitochondria supply the energy to the cells. Muscle cells require a lot of energy for contraction. Therefore muscle cells need a lot of mitochondria.
What is the primary determinant of how much force a muscle can generate?
The main factor that determines the power of the muscle is the total number of muscle cells available for contraction.
What is involved in muscle contraction in larger organisms?
Involved in muscle contraction in larger organisms is microfilament. Structures found only in plant cells are plastids. A type of plastid is chloroplasts.
Where are the cells that initiate the stimulus for contraction of the heart muscle located?
SA node
