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Muscle Contraction.

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1 Muscle Contraction

2 Color-Code Diagram

3 Muscle Contraction Videos
Skeletal muscle structure Muscle Contraction Process: Molecular Mechanism Beef Muscle Contraction and Relaxation (MUTE) QLEv1ZAp80Ru90Tz8ob8jYyvbO&index=16

4 Nerve signals stimulate muscle contractions

5 Muscle Cell Broken Down

6 Contractile Unit: Sarcomere
Thin Actin  Thick Myosin

7 Muscle Proteins: Troponin and Tropomyosin

8 Myosin binding to Actin

9 Contractile Unit: Sarcomere
Thin Actin  Relaxed Muscle Thick Myosin Contracted Muscle

10 Basic steps to a muscle Contraction:
Step 1: Nerves stimulate the muscles Step 2: Calcium is released Step 3: Calcium binds to troponin Step 4: Tropomyosin moves out of the way Step 5: Myosin binds to actin Step 6: Myosin pulls actin closer causing a muscle contraction Step 7: Calcium is removed Step 8: Myosin detaches from Actin Step 9: Muscle relaxes


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