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<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>The body contains three types of muscle tissue: skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle. Skeleton muscle tissue is composed of sarcomeres, the functional units of muscle tissue. Muscle contraction occurs when sarcomeres shorten, as thick and thin <a data-lesson="filaments-in-the-cytoskeleton" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="cell-structure" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/cell-structure/filaments-in-the-cytoskeleton">filaments</a> slide past each other, which is called the sliding filament <a href="https://app.ulearngo.com/tutorials/history-of-life-ii/ring-of-life-models">model</a> of muscle contraction. <a data-lesson="atp-in-living-systems" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="cellular-respiration" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/cellular-respiration/atp-in-living-systems">ATP</a> provides the <a data-lesson="biology-203-glossary-9" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="cell-metabolism" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/cell-metabolism/biology-203-glossary-9">energy</a> for cross-bridge formation and filament sliding. Regulatory proteins, such as troponin and tropomyosin, control cross-bridge formation. Excitation–contraction coupling transduces the electrical signal of the neuron, via acetylcholine, to an electrical signal on the muscle membrane, which initiates force production. The number of muscle fibers contracting determines how much force the whole muscle produces.</p>
<h2>Glossary</h2>
<h3>actin</h3>
<p>globular contractile <a data-lesson="tertiary-and-quaternary-protein-structures" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="biological-macromolecules" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/biological-macromolecules/tertiary-and-quaternary-protein-structures">protein</a> that interacts with myosin for muscle contraction</p>
<h3>acetylcholinesterase</h3>
<p>(AChE) enzyme that breaks down ACh into acetyl and choline</p>
<h3>cardiac muscle</h3>
<p>tissue muscle tissue found only in the heart; cardiac contractions pump <a data-lesson="blood-2" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="human-biology" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/human-biology/blood-2">blood</a> throughout the body and maintain blood pressure</p>
<h3>motor end plate</h3>
<p>sarcolemma of the muscle fiber that interacts with the neuron</p>
<h3>myofibril</h3>
<p>long cylindrical structures that lie parallel to the muscle fiber</p>
<h3>myofilament</h3>
<p>small structures that make up myofibrils</p>
<h3>myosin</h3>
<p>contractile protein that interacts with actin for muscle contraction</p>
<h3>sarcolemma</h3>
<p>plasma <a data-lesson="membrane-proteins" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="cell-biology" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/cell-biology/membrane-proteins">membrane</a> of a skeletal muscle fiber</p>
<h3>sarcomere</h3>
<p>functional unit of skeletal muscle</p>
<h3>skeletal muscle tissue</h3>
<p>forms skeletal muscles, which attach to <a data-lesson="bones" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="animal-systems-intro" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/animal-systems-intro/bones">bones</a> and control locomotion and any movement that can be consciously controlled</p>
<h3>smooth muscle</h3>
<p>tissue occurs in the walls of hollow organs such as the intestines, stomach, and urinary bladder, and around passages such as the respiratory tract and blood vessels</p>
<h3>thick filament</h3>
<p>a group of myosin molecules</p>
<h3>thin filament</h3>
<p>two polymers of actin wound together along with tropomyosin and troponin</p>
<h3>tropomyosin</h3>
<p>acts to block myosin binding sites on actin molecules, preventing cross-bridge formation and preventing contraction until a muscle receives a <a data-lesson="neuron" data-subject="biology" data-tutorial="human-biology" href="https://app.ulearngo.com/biology/human-biology/neuron">neuron</a> signal</p>
<h3>troponin</h3>
<p>binds to tropomyosin and helps to position it on the actin molecule, and also binds calcium ions</p>

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