sarcoplasm
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noun
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- sarcoplasmic adjective
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Origin of sarcoplasm
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Figure 29.34 A skeletal muscle cell is surrounded by a plasma membrane called the sarcolemma with a cytoplasm called the sarcoplasm.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
You will recall that the diameter of a muscle fiber can be up to 100 μm, so these T-tubules ensure that the membrane can get close to the SR in the sarcoplasm.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Ca++ ions are pumped out of the sarcoplasm into the SR, and cross-bridge cycling stops, returning the muscle fibers to their resting state.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The Ca++ ions in the sarcoplasm have bound to troponin, tropomyosin has shifted away from actin- binding sites, cross-bridges formed, and sarcomeres are actively shortening to the point of peak tension.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
By this time the parasite has greatly distended the muscle-fibre in which it has hitherto lain, absorbing, with its growth, practically all the contractile-substance, until it is surrounded only by the sarcolemma and sarcoplasm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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