ch. 9 Flashcards
four special characteristics of muscles
excitability
contractility
extensibility
elasticity
function of muscle tissue
move, position/posture, support, control, heat generation
muscle tissue types
skeletal
cardiac
smooth
skeletal muscle is found
attached to skeleton help us move
skeletal muscle is like
long muscle fibers
muscle fibers are long
multinucleated cells, striated
skeletal muscle is v/i
voluntary control
cardiac muscle is located
heart
cardiac muscle is
can have multi nuclei but usually only one
cardiac muscle fibers are connected together with
intercalated discs
intercalated discs are
gap junctions and desosomes
cardiac muscle straited?
appear that way
desosomes allow
cytoskeletal structures inside the cell
cardiac muscle v/i
involuntary
smooth muscle nuclei is
uninucleate
striations of smooth muscle?
none
where is smooth muscle found
walls of hollow organs
smooth muscle i/v
I
skeletal needs 2 places to attach aka
origin or insertion
orgin moves
less during action
insertion moves
during contraction/action
skeletal muscle attach 2 ways
direct
indirect
direct attachment
fusion of bone around tissue
indirect attachment
tendon/ muscle to bone
aponeurosis is
white color, tendon stretched into a sheet
epimysium
covers surface of skeletal muscle
muscle fascicles have
perimysium surrounding them
muscle of fascicles are actually
muscle fibers
muscle fibers covered by
endomysium
muscle fibers is actually
myofibrils
skeletal muscle mebrane
sarcolemma
sarcoplasm means
plasma surrounding fleshy muscle
t tubules
skeletal muscle connected to satcolemma
t tubules allow
electrical signals to pass to go deep
-vital for contraction
sarcoplasmic retriculum is
specialized to store calcium ions to cause contraction
myofibrils are made up of
sarcomeres
sarcomeres are the
smallest contractile unit
how do sarcomeres shorten
bc within they have protein myofilaments
skeletal muscle filaments
thick myosin
thin actin
elastic titin
thick filaments
flexible tail with hing between two heads
so we can wrap around
thick filament cross bridge
contraction allow heads to bind to thin filaments
when muscle is rest
actin covered up by tropomyosin and then troponin
troponin decides
if tropomyosin binds or un binds
sliding filament theory states
thick and thin filaments must slide past eachother due to formation of cross
every muscle fiber in the body has a
motor nueron
neuromuscular junction
little bit of force then only stimulate
a couple motor units
motor neurons stimulate
muscle fibers
average motor unit is
1 neuron to 100 muscle fibers