GENERAL ANATOMY
MUSCLE ANATOMY
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muscles to muscles
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muscles to neurons
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bones to bones
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muscles to bones
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Detailed explanation-1: -A tendon is a fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone. Tendons may also attach muscles to structures such as the eyeball. A tendon serves to move the bone or structure.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sharpey fibers: Collagen fibers that attach the tendon to the bone.
Detailed explanation-3: -Skeletal muscle is attached by cord-like tendons to bone, such as in the legs, arms, and face. Skeletal muscles are called striated (pronounced: STRY-ay-ted) because they are made up of fibers that have horizontal stripes when viewed under a microscope.
Detailed explanation-4: -Myotendinous junction. The junction that connects muscles to tendon cells. It is composed of ECM components, secreted into the space between the two cell types, that bind to integrin receptors on these cells.