Week 5

• What are the 3 main motor proteins?


  Myosin, kinesin & dynein
• How does skeletal muscle contract?


  Actin & myosin filaments slide over eachother to contract
• What are the 4 main types of tissues?


  • epithelium
  • connective
  • nervous
  • muscle
• Types of muscle tissue?


  • Skeletal
  • Cardiac
  • Smooth
• Lysosomal storage disease (further reading):


  Dysfunction of enzymes in lysosomes- accumulation of waste substances

  clinical signs: skeletal abnormalities & neurological & ocular disorders
• What is the centrosome?


  Contains pair of rod-like structures (centrioles) at right angles to eachother

  Involved in cell division