ch. 9 terms Flashcards
Muscles can transform ________ energy (ATP) into __________ energy, which is capable of exerting force for movement
chemical, mechanical
Myo and mys are prefixes for _________
Sarco means ________
muscle, flesh
Only skeletal and ________ muscle cells are elongated and referred to as muscle fibers
Cardiac muscle cells are called _____________
smooth, cardiocytes
_________ (skeletal/smooth) muscles are organs that are attached to ______ and skin, their fibers are striated, these muscles are __________
skeletal, bones, voluntary
Cardiac muscle tissue is found only in the _______ where it makes up bulk of heart walls
Cardiac muscle is _______ and _________
Cardiac muscle can _______ on its own with pacemaker cells and without nervous system stimulation
heart, striated, involuntary, contract
Smooth muscle tissue is found in walls of hollow v________ organs
Smooth muscle (is/ is not) _______ striated and is _________
Some Smooth muscle cells can ________ on their own with pacemaker cells and without nervous system stimulation
visceral, is not, involuntary, contract
- e___________ = responsiveness
The ability to receive and r________ to stimuli by changing the membrane potential - Contractility is the ability to s_______ forcibly when stimulated
- E__________ is the ability to be stretched beyond resting length
- Elasticity is the ability to r______ to resting length after stretching
excitability, respond, shorten, extensibility, recoil
Four important Muscle functions
1. Produce ________
2. ________ posture and body position
3. Stabilize _______
4. Generate ______ as they contract
movement, maintain, joints, heat
Skeletal muscle is an organ made up of different tissues
1. _______ muscle fibers
2. _____ fibers
3. _______ vessels
4. ___________ tissue sheaths
5. Attachments
skeletal, nerve, blood, connective
every ________ muscle fiber is supplied with a nerve ending that controls its ________
skeletal, activity
Contracting muscle fibers require
1. Continuous delivery of _____ and nutrients
2. e_______
O2, excretion
job of Connective Tissue Sheaths
1. s_________ muscle cells
2. r__________ and hold whole muscle together
support, reinforce
CT Sheaths from external to internal
1. ___mysium
2. _____mysium
3. ____mysium
epi, peri, endo
*Epimysium is dense ________ CT that surrounds the whole muscle
*Perimysium is f________ CT surrounding fascicles
*Endomysium is fine a______ CT surrounding each muscle fiber
irregular, fibrous, areolar
- _______ - attachment to movable bone
- ___________ - attachment to immovable or less movable bone
insertion, origin
With _______ attachments, the epimysium is fused to the
periosteum of bone
direct
*Sarco________ is the muscle fiber’s plasma membrane
*Sarco_____ is the muscle fiber’s cytoplasm
sarcolemma, sarcoplasm
m_________ are densely packed rod-like elements that account for ~80% of muscle cell volume and run the length of muscle fibers
Myofibrils
Myofibril s________ are stripes formed from repeating series of
dark and light bands along length of each myofibril
striations
Region of a myofibril between two Z discs is called a
s___________
sarcomere
m___________ myofilaments are thick filaments with myosin heads located
in the middle between Z discs
*Myosin is composed of p_______ myosin intertwined to form a myosin tail and forms the myosin globular head
myosin, protein
g____________ heads are the “business end” of myosin. During a
muscle contraction, myosin globular heads link myosin to actin
at actin’s active site forming c_______ bridges
Globular, cross
a_____ myofilaments are thin filaments with active sites anchored to
Z discs
actin subunits are link together to form long, fibrous strands
twisted together to form a thin f___________ like a “twisted string of
pearls”
actin, filament
t______________ molecules spiral around actin to stabilize it
tropomyosin
t_________ consists of three globular polypeptides and
calcium binds to __________
Troponin (x2)
e________ filament is composed of protein titin and hold
the thick filaments, myosin, in place
elastic
s____________ reticulum consists of
interconnecting tubules surrounding each myofibril
like a crocheted sleeve
sarcoplasmic
s______________ protrudes deep into the cell’s interior forming T tubules which are i__________ of the Sarcolemma
sarcolemma, invaginations
t_______ (another name for a piano chord) consist of a T tubule running between the paired terminal cisterns of SR
the Triad area formed is from 2 Terminal c______, T t______
triad, cisterns, tubule
s___________ occurs if the cross bridges generate enough tension on the thin filaments to exceed forces opposing shortening,
shortening
c____________ (pre/during labor) ends when cross bridges become inactive, tension declines, and the muscle fiber relaxes
contraction
in the r_________ state, thin and thick filaments overlap only slightly
relaxed
s_______ filament model of contraction states that during a c_________ the thin filaments slide past thick filaments causing actin and myosin to overlap more
sliding, contraction
Muscle Fiber c__________ is due to motor neuron stimulating s______ muscle fiber to contract
contraction, skeletal
Four steps must occur for skeletal muscle fiber to contract
1. n________ stimulation
2. a__________ potential = electrical current must be generated in sarcolemma
3. Action potential automatically propagated along s_______
4. Intracellular ______ levels must rise briefly
nerve, action, sarcolemma, CA2+
skeletal muscle cells are stimulated by s________ motor neurons
Parts of a Somatic Motor Neuron
1. Dendrites
2. ____ Body
3. Axons- long, threadlike extensions of motor neurons that travel
from _______ nervous system to skeletal muscle
4. terminal Branches- Each __________ branch gives off curling branches forming an elliptical neuro__________ Junction
5. Axon Terminals- the very end of the motor n_______ is the mound-like
somatic, cell, central, terminal, neuromuscular, neuron
s______ vesicles that contain the neurotransmitter
Acetylcholine
synaptic