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1.10 PHYSIOLOGY - Motor Flashcards

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Other name for unitary smooth muscle

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Syncitial smooth muscle

Visceral smooth muscle

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3 types of muscles

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Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth

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Smooth muscles with gap junctions

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Unitary smooth muscle

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Smooth muscles with no true Action potential (junctional potential only)

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Multi-unit smooth muscle

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Smooth muscle utilizing slow wave, spike potentials and plataeu potentials

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Unitary

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Rhythmic, intermittent smooth muscle

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Phasic smooth muscle

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Continuously active smooth muscle

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Tonic smooth muscle

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Skeletal muscle more active in the glycolytic pathway

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Fast twitch

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Examples of slow twitch fibers

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Soleus, antigravity back muscles

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Examples of fast twitch muscles

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EOMS

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Covers the muscle fascicle

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Perimysium

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Type of muscles arrange in sarcomeres

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Skeletal and cardiac

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Plasma membrane surrounding the muscle fiber

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Sarcolemma

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Invaginations of the sarcolemma in close proximity to the terminal cisternse of the SR

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T tubules

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Endoplasmic reticulum surrounding myofibril

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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Boundary of the sarcomere

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Z lines

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Thick filaments

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Myosin

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Thin filaments

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Actin
Tropomyosin
Troponin

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3 types of troponins

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Trop T - attaches troponin complex to tropomyosin
Trop I inhibits actin myosin binding
Trop C -calcium binding protein

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Tethers myosin to z- lines

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Titin - also the largest protein in the human body

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Stabilizes the sarcolemmma and prevents contraction induced rupture.

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Dystrophin

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21
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Binds actin to z-lines

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Actinin, capz protein

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Binds z lines to sarcolemma

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Desmin

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Acts as a molecular ruler that sets the length of actin during assembly

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Nebulin

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24
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What do you call actin and myosin interaction in the sliding filament model?

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Cross bridge formation

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What does negative pole and positive pole mean?

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Negative pole - toward the M-line

positive pole - towards the Z-line

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Sequesters Ca for storage

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Calsequestrin

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27
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Receptors activated by DHPR receptors

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Ryanodine receptors

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28
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What is the distance achieved in each cross-bridge cycle?

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10 nm

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29
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What is a motor unit?

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Consists of a somatic motor neuron plus all muscle fibers it stimulates.

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Small motor units are recruited first before big motor units

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Size principle

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Multiple fiber summation

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Spatial summation

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Frequency summation

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Temporal summation

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What is the Staircase/Treppe Effect

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Each contraction occurs after complete relaxation producing stronger contraction each time.

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Basis for the Treppe effect

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Ca2+ accumulation, pH changes, increased temperature

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Complete fusion of individual muscle contraction when Ca 2+ is all used up

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Which of the following tetanizes at a lower stimulus frquency? Fast or slow twitch?

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Slow-twitch

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Which if the following has a larger maximal force during tetany?

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Fast twitch

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Active tension reflect what?

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Number of cross bridges that cycle

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Velocity of cross bridging reflects

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Speed of cross-bridging cycling

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Isometric contraction

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Length is held constant

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Load is held constant

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Isotonic contraction

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2 types of isotonic contraction

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Concentric contraction (weight up)
Eccentric contraction (lowering weight down)

Remember book diagram

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Protective mechanism to prevent muscle cell injury or death

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Muscle fatigue

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Relationship of muscle fatigue to glycogen and lactate

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Directly prop to lactate and inversely prop to glycogen

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Relies both on intra and extracellular calcium

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Cardiac muscle

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Why is there no tetany in cardiac muscles?

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Due to the long refractory period brought about by phase 2

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Location of transverse tubules in cardiac muscles

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In the Z lines

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Location of transverse tubules of skeletal muscles

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At the ends of the I bands

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum is more developed im cardiac or skeletal?

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Are there troponins in smooth muscle?

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Secondary messenger for calcium release in smooth muscles

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Trop C equivalent in smooth muscle

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Calmodulin

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Phosphorylates myosin

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Trop I equivalent in smooth muscle

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Caldesmon and Calponin

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Additioj of phosphate means the smooth muscle is active. True or false.

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Enzyme that removes phosphate

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Caldesmon and Calponin are inhibited by

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Ca-Calmodulin complex

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Similar to z discs in smooth muscles

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Dense bodies

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Rudimentary structure in smooth muscles compared to skeletal muscles

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Rudimentary t tubules

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Connect dense bodies with cytoskeletal network in smooth muscle

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Desmin and vimentin

Intermediate filaments

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Force of contraction in smooth muscles are stronger or weaker than skeletal muscle

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Spinal cord neurons important in control of muscles

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Anterior motor neurons
Interneurons
Renshaw cell

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Anterior motor neuron for extrafusal fibers

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Alpha motor neuron

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Angerior motor neuron for intrafusal fibers

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Gamma motor neuron

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Facilitates lateral inhibition in the control of muscles

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Renshaw cell

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Detects position of body in space

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Proprioception

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2 major proprioceptors

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Muscle spindle and golgi tendon

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Muscle spindles and are arranged in a ________ and detects changes in ___________

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Parallel

Muscle length and rate of change of muscle length

70
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Golgi tendon and are arranged in a ________ and detects changes in ___________

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Series

Muscle tension

71
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Functional unit of the cerebellum

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Purkinje and deep nuclear cell

72
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Which functional unit of the cerebellum is the middle layer and is always inhibitory?

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