Ch 9: Continued Flashcards
Sarcoplasm
Skeletal muscle cells cytoplasm
Sarcolemma
Muscle cell membrane
Transverse tubule
Invagination of sarcolemma
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Modified ER system of skeletal muscle cell that stores and releases calcium
Terminal cisternae
Enlarge terminal segments of the Sarcoplasmic reticulum
What is the depolarization phase caused by?
Sodium channels open (influx)
- k+ channels close
What is the re-polarization phase caused by? 
Potassium channels open (efflux)
- sodium channels closed 
What are the three channels of a muscle fiber
Sodium channel, potassium, channel, sodium, and potassium pump (ATP)
What is an influx?
Moving substance from outside to inside 
What is the dip called on the graph? 
Hyper polarization
What is hyper polarization caused by?
Slow, closing of potassium channel
Ligand gated channel 
Neuro transmitter used in muscle contraction also called acetylocholine
Voltage gated channel
Open/close in response to small voltage change across the plasma membrane
Can a NMJ be a synapse
Yes 
Presynaptic membrane
Membrane before synapse
(nerve)
Postsynaptic membrane
 Membrane after synapse
-muscle cell
Motor unit
Single motor neuron, and all muscle fibers innervated
Large motor unit numbers
Mini muscle fibers
Small motor unit numbers
Few muscle fibers 
Order of muscle contraction steps
- Action potential simulates
- AP cause voltage gated calcium channel to open.
- Acetylcholine Is released from presynaptic vesicles. 
- Acetylcholine stimulates sodium channels on postsynaptic to open.
- Sodium diffuses into fiber, initiating action potential to travel to T tubules and sarcolemma
- Action potential energy tubules, cause Sarcoplasmic reticulum to release calcium
- On Acton, calcium, binds to troponin, and moves triple myosin, and myosin to move.
- ATP molecules are broken by ADP & P to release energy to move myosin heads.
- Heads of myosin, mytolam bend causing act into slide past myosin, as long as calcium is present the circle repeats