Muscular System

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Used to convert ADP to ATP by transfer of a high-energy phosphate group. A reserve high-energy compound.

Continued sustained smooth contraction due to rapid stimulation.

Serves as the actual trigger for muscle contraction by removing the inhibition of the troponin molecules.

Only ____________ muscle cells are always multinucleated

Hypothetically, if a muscle were stretched to the point where thick and thin filaments no longer overlapped, ________.

What is the role of calcium ions in muscle contraction?

Contractures are a result of a total lack of

Immediately following the arrival of the stimulus at a skeletal muscle cell there is a short period called the ________ period during which the events of excitation-contraction coupling occur.