A muscle cell, also known as a myocyte, is a mature contractile cell in the muscle of an animal. In humans and other vertebrates there are three types:... 37 KB (4,515 words) - 23:27, 19 March 2024 |
The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscle tissue, and are often known as muscle fibers. The muscle tissue... 120 KB (13,876 words) - 14:33, 17 April 2024 |
Myosatellite cells, also known as satellite cells, muscle stem cells or MuSCs, are small multipotent cells with very little cytoplasm found in mature muscle. Satellite... 28 KB (3,408 words) - 17:26, 22 February 2024 |
Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells. In physiology, muscle contraction does not necessarily mean muscle... 62 KB (7,394 words) - 18:12, 1 May 2024 |
Muscle hypertrophy or muscle building involves a hypertrophy or increase in size of skeletal muscle through a growth in size of its component cells. Two... 31 KB (3,419 words) - 20:42, 26 March 2024 |
sarcoplasmic reticulum. The functional unit of a muscle fiber is called a sarcomere. Each muscle cell contains myofibrils composed of actin and myosin... 8 KB (944 words) - 19:41, 19 January 2024 |
Sarcolemma (redirect from Muscle cell membrane) from Greek; sheath), also called the myolemma, is the cell membrane surrounding a skeletal muscle fibre or a cardiomyocyte. It consists of a lipid bilayer... 4 KB (434 words) - 11:52, 7 March 2024 |
Myometrium (redirect from Myometrial smooth muscle cell) middle layer of the uterine wall, consisting mainly of uterine smooth muscle cells (also called uterine myocytes) but also of supporting stromal and vascular... 6 KB (630 words) - 16:23, 14 February 2024 |
Cytoskeleton (redirect from Cell wall skeleton) inhibition. This action contracts the muscle cell, and through the synchronous process in many muscle cells, the entire muscle. In 1903, Nikolai K. Koltsov proposed... 45 KB (5,121 words) - 07:02, 22 February 2024 |
Rhabdomyolysis (redirect from Muscle breakdown) blood supply, while non-physical causes interfere with muscle cell metabolism. When damaged, muscle tissue rapidly fills with fluid from the bloodstream... 49 KB (4,816 words) - 02:56, 18 January 2024 |
Muscular system (redirect from Muscle system) contraction of each muscle fiber. Skeletal muscle, is a type of striated muscle, composed of muscle cells, called muscle fibers, which are in turn composed of... 15 KB (1,733 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2024 |
Myostatin (redirect from Double-muscle) myokine that is produced and released by myocytes and acts on muscle cells to inhibit muscle growth. Myostatin is a secreted growth differentiation factor... 48 KB (5,322 words) - 10:36, 6 April 2024 |
causes the muscle cells to decrease in efficiency, causing cramping and fatigue. Potassium builds up in the t-tubule system and around the muscle fiber as... 21 KB (2,512 words) - 14:01, 2 April 2024 |
Neuromuscular junction (redirect from Skeletal muscle junction) and binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) on the cell membrane of the muscle fiber, also known as the sarcolemma. nAChRs are ionotropic receptors... 33 KB (4,031 words) - 08:04, 30 April 2024 |
sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. The muscle attaches to the follicular stem cell niche in the follicular bulge, splitting at their deep... 6 KB (604 words) - 09:24, 14 March 2024 |
Atherosclerosis (section Vascular smooth muscle cells) underlying inflammatory process. The presence of the plaque induces the muscle cells of the blood vessel to stretch, compensating for the additional bulk... 99 KB (11,043 words) - 08:47, 23 April 2024 |
Myofibril (redirect from Muscle fibril) a muscle fibril or sarcostyle) is a basic rod-like organelle of a muscle cell. Skeletal muscles are composed of long, tubular cells known as muscle fibers... 10 KB (1,235 words) - 19:06, 19 December 2023 |
Vasodilation (section Smooth muscle physiology) the widening of blood vessels. It results from relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, in particular in the large veins, large arteries... 45 KB (4,136 words) - 17:42, 24 April 2024 |
T-tubule (category Cell anatomy) (transverse tubules) are extensions of the cell membrane that penetrate into the center of skeletal and cardiac muscle cells. With membranes that contain large... 25 KB (3,239 words) - 08:24, 3 March 2024 |
Muscle tissue engineering is a subset of the general field of tissue engineering, which studies the combined use of cells and scaffolds to design therapeutic... 39 KB (4,761 words) - 07:08, 29 April 2024 |
Myogenesis (redirect from Myogenic cells) factor family. Cells that make myogenic bHLH transcription factors (including MyoD or Myf5) are committed to development as a muscle cell. Consequently... 23 KB (2,640 words) - 10:26, 17 January 2024 |
Syncytium (category Cell biology) cytokinesis. The muscle cell that makes up animal skeletal muscle is a classic example of a syncytium cell. The term may also refer to cells interconnected... 18 KB (2,042 words) - 16:03, 26 November 2023 |
as myasthenia gravis. Muscle weakness can also be caused by low levels of potassium and other electrolytes within muscle cells. It can be temporary or... 21 KB (2,577 words) - 01:03, 20 April 2024 |