Ch 11: Muscle tissue Flashcards
Functions of the muscular system
- Movement
- Stability
3. Control of openings - Heat production
- Glycemic control
Facia
Sheet of connective tissue that separates one muscle from neighboring muscles
Epimysium
Outermost fibrous Sheets surrounding entire muscle under fascia 
Perimysium
Thicker part surrounding fascicles
Endmysium
Fibrous tissue around each fiber
Universal characteristics of muscle
Excitability
Conductivity
Contractility
Extensibility
Elasticity
Types of muscle tissues
Skeletal muscles
Cardiac
Smooth
Plasma membrane of muscle cell
Sarcolemma
Cytoplasm of muscle cell
Sarcoplasm
Myofibrils
Pertinacious cords made of smaller myofilaments
Myoglobin
Read oxygen binding pigment; provides oxygen for muscular activity
Muscle cells have lots of which cellular organelle
Mitochondria
Muscle cells are multi nucleated or only have one nucleus?
Multinucleated 
Muscle version of endoplasmic reticulum, and what it helps to do
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Crucial for contractility and excited ability
Has calcium reservoir
And part of the sarcoplasmic reticulum That forms triad with T tubules
Terminal cisterns
Transverse T tubules
Electric lines; one muscle fiber to multiple muscle fibers
Triad
Terminal cistern
Teaching your
Terminal cistern
Myofilaments
 Filaments responsible for contraction; myosin and actin and elastic
Thick filaments
Made of myosin; golf club heads interact with Acton to meet contraction
Myosin ATPase
Enzyme that utilizes ATP to help with contraction
Thin filament
Made up of protein actin
Whole structure of Acton= F actin, subunits = G actin
Covering that covers active site so no spontaneous contraction
Tropomyosin
Troponin
Where calcium binds and causes tropomyosin to fall off active site on actin
Elastic filament : Made of and does what?
Protein titin
Attaches to Z band and thick filament to allow movement inward and outward
Myofibrils
Arranged in cylindrical bundles that extend from one end of muscle to the other
A bands
Dark
Thick Filomena’s side by side
I band
Light
Region w no thick filaments
H line
Lighter region in A band
M line
Point to which thin filaments are linked together (middle of h band)
sarcomere
Segment from one z disc to the next
Hierarchy of skeletal muscle
Muscle
Fascicle
Muscle fiber
Myofibril
Sarcomere
Myofilaments
Fascicle
Bundle of muscle fibers within muscle
Muscle fiber
Single muscle cell enclosed in sarcolemma made of lots of myofibrils
Myofibril
Made of proteinsceous filaments
Sarcomere
Functional unit of Myofibrils
Myofilaments
Individual filaments ( thick, thin, elastic)
Cardiac muscle
Cells are myocytes
Cardiac contractions are rhythmic because of what kind of cells?
Pacemaker cells; contract without stimulation or innervation
Which muscle cells have under developed Sarco plasmic reticulum and larger T tubules to admit more calcium?
Cardiac muscle
Which muscle cells lack striations, are slower, form layers in walls of hollow organs? SR is scanty and no T tubules
Smooth muscle