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Irregular transverse thickenings of the sarcolemma?
Irregular transverse thickenings of the sarcolemma connect cardiac muscle fibers to neighboring muscle fibers. The gap junctions that occur with irregular transverse thickening of the sarcolemma allow the myocardium to contract as a single unit.
What structure is part of a muscle cells membrane that delivers signals to sarcomere?
The transverse (T) tubules are structures in a muscle cell's membrane that deliver signals from the cell surface to the sarcomeres, which are the contractile units of the muscle cell. These T-tubules help coordinate muscle contraction by allowing the signal for muscle contraction to penetrate deeply into the cell.
Enlarged portion of sacroplasmic reticulum on either side of a transverse tubule?
These structures are called terminal cisternae, and they function to store and release calcium ions during muscle contraction. The close proximity of terminal cisternae to transverse tubules allows for efficient communication and regulation of calcium release during excitation-contraction coupling in muscle cells.
What has the function of transmitting a muscle impulse into the interior of the cell?
Transmitting a muscle impulse into the interior of the cell involves depolarization of the cell membrane through the opening of voltage-gated sodium channels, allowing sodium ions to rush into the cell. This depolarization then triggers the release of calcium ions from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, leading to muscle contraction.
What is the function role of t tubules?
Enhance cellular communication passage for nervous stimulation during muscle contraction.
What is the function of the transverse tubules in muscle cells?
The transverse tubules in muscle cells help transmit electrical impulses deep into the cell, allowing for coordinated muscle contractions.
What is the function of transverse tubules in muscle cells?
Transverse tubules in muscle cells help transmit electrical impulses deep into the cell, allowing for coordinated muscle contractions.
What are the tunnel-like extensions of the sarcolemma into the muscle fiber?
transverse tubules transverse tubules
What is the role of the tubules?
What is the function of the transverse tubules, is it the place where actin and myosin interact or the storage of calcium ions, or to transmit muscle impulses into the cell interior?
The command to contract is distributed throughout a muscle fiber by the?
Transverse Tubules
What are the muscle action potential penetrates into a fiber along the?
Transverse tubules (T-Tubules)
This transverse structure unique to muscle cells?
T-Tubules, I think...
Irregular transverse thickenings of the sarcolemma?
Irregular transverse thickenings of the sarcolemma connect cardiac muscle fibers to neighboring muscle fibers. The gap junctions that occur with irregular transverse thickening of the sarcolemma allow the myocardium to contract as a single unit.
What does the transverse tubules do?
Transverse tubules are extensions of the cell membrane that help to transmit action potentials deep into the muscle fibers. They allow for the rapid and synchronized release of calcium ions from the sarcoplasmic reticulum to trigger muscle contraction.
What connects the sarcolemma and the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
The T-tubules, or transverse tubules, connect the sarcolemma (muscle cell membrane) to the sarcoplasmic reticulum (membrane network within muscle cells). T-tubules allow for the rapid transmission of action potentials generated at the sarcolemma to the interior of the muscle cell, triggering the release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum to initiate muscle contraction.
The impulse that triggers a contraction travels deep into a muscle fiber by means of what?
transverse tubules
What structure is part of a muscle cells membrane that delivers signals to sarcomere?
The transverse (T) tubules are structures in a muscle cell's membrane that deliver signals from the cell surface to the sarcomeres, which are the contractile units of the muscle cell. These T-tubules help coordinate muscle contraction by allowing the signal for muscle contraction to penetrate deeply into the cell.
