KROK 1 2013 – Question 113 · KROK (Medicine) · Histology, Cytology, and Embryology
Negative environmental factors have caused the dysfunction of myosatellite cells. What function of the whole muscle fibre is likely to be changed in this case?
- A. Trophism
- B. Regeneration
- C. Contractile thermogenesis
- D. Contraction
- E. Relaxation
Hint
Satellite cells are small reserve cells beside the fibre, not part of its myofibrils or calcium handling; ask which of the listed functions depends on new cells rather than on existing machinery.
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