C3 - HMS - Skeletal Muscle Flashcards
Where is muscle derived from?
Embryonic mesoderm
What is a fascicle?
A bundle of muscle fibres within the perimysium (connective tissue)
What is a muscle?
Bundle of fascicles surrounded by the epimysium (connective tissue)
What is a cell with many nuclei described as?
Coenocytic (if nuclei results from mitosis)
Syncytium (if nuclei results from fusion of many cells)
((MUSCLE FIBRES ARE BOTH)
What are thick + thin myofilaments usually?
Thick - Myosin
Thin - Actin
How long roughly is a sarcomere?
3 micrometers
Do the lengths of actin and myosin change?
NO
SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION
What is the A band?
Entire length of Myosin so also a bit of Actin.
SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION
What is the I band?
Actin up to the start of myosin
SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION
What is the H zone?
JUST myosin
SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION
What happens to the A band?
Same length
SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION
What happens to the I band
Shortens
SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION
What happens to the H zone
Shortens
How do nervous impulses cause muscles to contract?
In a process called ‘excitation-contraction coupling’.
What is the molecular mechanism of muscle contraction described by?
Sliding filament theory
What is meant by a Neuromuscular Junction?
Where motor neurones synapse w/ muscle fibres.
Describe the motor end plate at a NM junction
Folded to give large SA
Has receptor proteins for Acetylcholine
Describe what happens when an AP arrives at a NM junction
Vesicles of NT acetylcholine are released into synaptic cleft to then diff. across to bind to receptor proteins on motor end plate = Na+ channels to open = DEPOLARISES sarcolemma.
Sarcolemma carries depolarisation AWAY to the rest of the myofibril.
The ‘T tubule’ carries depolarisation deep into microfibril.
Sarcoplasmic reticulum releases Ca2+ = muscular contraction.
When does the sequence of the sliding filament theory repeat until?
Until the Ca2+ ions (ions that expose the myosin binding sites on the actin) are all actively pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
Give an example of slow twitch (Type 1) muscles in humans
Back muscles + soleus muscle have about 80% slow twitch fibres.
Give an example of fast twitch (Type 2) muscles in humans
Eye muscles have about 85% fast twitch fibres.