Muscle physiology

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Introduction: Nature in its supreme wisdom has therefore given muscles about half a man’s body weight. Locomotion is achieved by skeletal muscle so called they are attached to bones and bring about movement at joints. Muscle cells like neurons can excited chemically, electrically and mechanically to produce an action potential that is transmitted along there cell membrane, unlike neurons they have a contractile mechanism that is activated by the action potential. The contractile proteins actins and myosin are abundant in muscles where they bring about contraction.

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