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BIOSCI 107 Part One > Cells and Tissues - Muscle and Nervous Tissue > Flashcards

Cells and Tissues - Muscle and Nervous Tissue Flashcards

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Muscle tissue description

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tissue that is made of contractile cells (muscle fibres)

These contract to make body parts move and generates heat

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What is muscle tissue comprised of?

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It is made up of elongated cells (muscle cells or muscle fibres or myocytes)

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What is the function of muscle tissue?

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To use energy from the hydrolysis of ATP to generate contractile forces, producing body movements, maintains posture and generates heat

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What are the three types of muscle tissue?

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Skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle (these comprise more than 50% of body tissue mass)

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Where are skeletal muscle attached?

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To bones via tendons

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What is skeletal muscle comprised of?

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Long, cylindrical fibres in the tissue that make it look striated. It is also multinucleated (many peripheral nuclei pushed to the side)

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The function of skeletal muscle?

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Motion, posture, heat production and protection

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Is skeletal muscle voluntary?

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It is considered voluntary because contraction and relaxation are under conscious control. However, some things like posture are not voluntary

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What is the stapedius and where is it located?

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The smallest skeletal muscle in the body (1.25mm) and is located in the ear

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What is hyperacusis?

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Excessively sensitive hearing

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What is Bell’s Palsey?

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A condition where paralysis of the facial nerve causes muscular weakness in one side of the face and hyperacusis

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What is the sartorius and where is it located?

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The longest skeletal muscle (60cm) which is located in the anterior region of the thigh

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What is the function of the sartorius?

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Flexes, abducts, and laterally rotates thigh/hip; flexes knee

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What are myofibrils?

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Protein structures (diameter is 2 micrometres) that run the entire length of the sarcoplasm (cytoplasm), made up of filaments

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What is sarcoplasm?

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The cytoplasm in skeletal muscle

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What is sarcolemma?

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is the plasma membrane of a striated muscle fibre cell

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What are myofibrils made of?

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Thin and thick filaments

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What type of filament is Actin?

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The thin filament in myofibrils (8 nm diam; 1-2 μm long)

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What type of filament is myosin?

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The thick filament in myofibrils (16 nm diam; 1-2 μm long)

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What is a sarcomere?

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A structural unit of a myofibril in striated muscle

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What is epimysium?

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dense irregular connective tissue surrounding a muscle

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What is perimysium?

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the sheath of connective tissue surrounding a bundle of muscle fibres

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What is endomysium?

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a layer of areolar connective tissue that ensheaths each individual muscle fibre.
Capillaries and nerves are on this layer

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What is the A band?

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The dark middle area of the sarcomere, containing all thick filaments

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What is the I band?

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Area of sarcomere containing thin filaments only

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What is the H zone?

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Area of sarcomere containing thick filaments only

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What is the M line?

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Middle of the sarcomere, holds thick filaments together and binds to titin

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What is the Z disc?

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Passes through centre of I band and made up of actinins that link the filaments of adjacent sarcomeres

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What is titin?

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The ‘molecular spring’ that links the M line to the Z disc

Also resists tension within the I band

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What does cardiac muscle consist of?

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Fibres that join end-to-end through intercalated discs. Striated and branched with a single central nucleus.

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What are intercalated discs and what do they contain?

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Attachment sites between the transverse lines between cardiac muscle cells, contains desmosomes and gap junctions

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The function of desmosome in the intercalated disc

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To bind intermediate filaments and provide adhesion vigorous contractions

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The function of gap junctions in the intercalated disc

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For cell-communication, cell co-ordination and rapid conduction throughout the heart

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Where is cardiac muscle tissue found?

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The heart wall

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What is the function of cardiac muscle tissue?

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To pump blood all around the body

36
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Is cardiac muscle tissue voluntary?

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No, its involuntary

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Where is smooth muscle tissue located?

8 examples

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Located in the walls of hollow internal structures:

Eg: Intestines (peristalsis), blood vessel walls (constriction), iris of the eye, reproductive, respiratory, digestive, urinary systems, erector pili

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Is smooth muscle tissue voluntary?

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No, its involuntary

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What is smooth muscle comprised of?

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It contains bundles of thin (actin) and thick (myosin) filaments. 
Is short, small and spindle shaped 
It is the thickest in the middle 
Non-striated (smooth)  
Has a single central nucleus
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What are dense bodies?

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Similar to Z discs which contain the protein actinin
Thin filaments (actin) and intermediate filaments attach themselves to dense bodies
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How do smooth muscle cells twist during contraction?

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The intermediate filaments are non-contractile

When cells contract the filaments force the cells to contract around ‘stable rods’, causing it to twist

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What is the function of smooth muscle tissue?

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Motion - constriction of blood vessels and airways, propulsion of foods through G.I tract, contraction of urinary bladder and gall bladder

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Nervous tissue description

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Tissue that contains nerve cells and supportive neuroglia

Carries information from one part of the body to another through nerve impulses

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The two components of the nervous system

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Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

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What is in the CNS?

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Brain, spinal cord and optic nerve

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What is in the PNS?

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All other nervous tissue outside of the CNS

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What is the role of the PNS?

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Afferent division:
Send information to the CNS

Efferent division:
Send information from the CNS to the organs (muscles and glands)

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Nervous system function

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Maintain homeostasis (along with the endocrine system)
Initiate voluntary movements
Responsible for perception, behaviour and memory

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What is the nervous tissue sensory function?

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Detection of internal and external stimuli and transfer to CNS

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What is the nervous tissue integrative function?

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Analysis and storing of information

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What is the nervous tissue motor function?

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Stimulation of effectors (eg muscle and glands through PNS)

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What does nervous tissue consist of?

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Neurons and neuroglia that have both conscious and unconscious control

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What are neurons comprised of?

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Cell body into which short, branched dendrites convert nerve impulses (action potentials) and from which a longer, single axon conducts nerve impulses to another neuron or tissue.

NEURONS DO NOT DIVIDE (ie mitotic rate) and have a high metabolic rate

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What is a dendrite?

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Receiving/input part of the neuron

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What is an axon?

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Carries the nerve impulse away from the neuron. Is the output portion of the neuron

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Features of multipolar neurons

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Have 2 or more dendrites and a single axon
Most common neurons in CNS
All motor neurons (control skeletal muscle) are in this class
Some of the longest (ie from spinal cord to toe muscles)

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Features of bipolar neurons

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Two distinct processes:
1: Dendritic process (can branch at the tip. but not at cell body)
- 1 axon
Has the cell body between the axon and dendrite
Rare and small
Special sense organs (sight, smell, hearing)
Relay information from receptors to neurons

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Features of Unipolar neurons

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The dendrites and axons are continuous 
Cell body off to one side 
Whole thing where dendrites converge called an axon 
Most sensory nerves are unipolar 
Very long (1m) ie from CNS to toe tip
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Features of an anaxonic neuron

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RARE
Anatomy cannot distinguish dendrites from axons
Found in brain and special sense organs

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What are the functions of the neuroglia

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Are the physical structure of nervous tissue
Repair framework of nervous tissue
Undertake phagocytosis
Nutrient supply to neurons
Regulate interstitial fluid in the neural tissue

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Where are neuroglia found?

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Both CNS and PNS

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How big are neuroglia?

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Smaller than neurons but more numerous

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Features of neuroglia

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Can communicate but do not propagate action potentials

Can divide in the mature nervous system

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What is the Myelin sheath?

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Covers the axon of some neurons
Helps speed neural impulses
Lipids - fat is insulating

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What are Astrocytes?

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Star-shaped and form a syncitunm
CNS neuroglia that are responsible for the support and repair pf neurons
Maintain the environment around neurons through maintaining the blood-brain barrier
Regulate ions
Influence permeability of vessels

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What are Gliotransmitters?

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Method of communication between astrocytes and neurons

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What are Ependymal cells?

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CNS neuroglia that produces Cerebrospinal fluid
Lines ventricles in the brain
Contain cilia for movement
Contain microvilli for sampling and monitoring

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The function of Cerebrospinal fluid?

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Mechanical buffer that moves nutrients and waste

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What are Oligodendrocytes?

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Type of glial cell in the CNS that wrap axons in a myelin sheath
Form the myelin sheath for MULTIPLE axons

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What are Microglia?

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Phagocytic glia that provides protection

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What are the two cells in the PNS?

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Schwann cells and satellite cells

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What are Schwann cells?

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PNS glia that can from the myelin sheath for ONE axon

Or provide support for multiple non-myelinated axons

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What are satellite cells?

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PNS cells that surround the neurons to provide support and help with fluid exchange.

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