Learning Objectives

• Outline the characteristics of structure and function of muscle cells
• Describe the structural specializations/classifications of muscle cells
• Identify and recall the locations of the different type of muscle within the body
• Describe the structure of the contractile unit of skeletal muscle – the “sarcomere”

Muscle Tissue

• what are 4 functions of muscle?
• Muscle Summary

Skeletal Muscle

• voluntary or involuntary control?
• how is skeletal muscle organised? (from protein to muscle)
• what 3 types of CT surround muscle?
• what type of CT forms each layer?
• structural and histological features?
• what are the functions of skeletal muscle?
• what structures does skeletal muscle attach to?

Cardiac Muscle

• voluntary or involuntary control?
• structural and histological features?