Let's Go to the Tape. A runner's guide to the new generation of sport taping. By Julia Kirtland Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 12:00 am. You've probably seen colored tape showing up on the legs of runners in the last few years, including Meb Keflezighi, masters ace Tracy Lokken and other elites.
Muscle and nerve tissue and physiology: Neurons and muscle cells have much in common, in that they both are excitable, conduct electric impulses by allowing sodium ions to enter and potassium ions to exit, and both function by allowing calcium ions to move back and forth across membranes.&P I Muscle Physiology. Compare the connective tissue coverings of the muscles with those of the nerves. The extensions of epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium into tendons are called epitendinium, etc. Nerves also contain fascicles (fasciculi), which are covered by perineurium, and contain neurons.
The cell membrane of a muscle cell is called the sarcolemma, and this membrane, like that of neurons, maintains a membrane potential. So, impulses travel along muscle cell membranes just as they do along nerve cell membranes. However, the 'function' of impulses in muscle cells is to bring about contraction. To understand how a muscle contracts, you need to know a bit about the structure of muscle cells. Skeletal muscle is the muscle attached to the skeleton.