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highschool-senior/anatomy/SlidingFilamentTheory.md

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# Sliding Filament Theory
acetocolene and neurotransmitters and muscle movement
(causes muscle contraction here)
## actin and myosin - the thick and thin filaments
the filaments that do the work
excitation contraciton coupling
myosin connects and pulls
**myosin pulls**
myosin head is where the it binds
it keeps going as long it has requirements met
### Step 1
excitation
it has depolorization of the membrane
### Step 2
excitation
propocation into a t-tubule
- leads from the muscle fiber(cell) to inside sarcoplasmic reticulum (sr)
sarco is calcium storage for muscles
### Step 3
excitation
releases calcium once the sarco is excited/depolarized
### Step 4
excotation
calcium moves toropomiasin to expose the active sites for contraction to occur
Cross bridge cycle aka contraction (4 steps)
### step 5
myosin head connects to the newly exposed active site
(actin and myosin automatically bind)
### step 6
stored energy used to pivot to pull
pulls actin strand/shortens muscle
(aside)(muscle cramps)
muscles stuck in position without energy to release the myosin
### step 7
releses myosin from the active site
### step 8
atp broken down to reset
relaxation
### step 9
neural signal ends