Chapter 10 Muscle Phisiology

Question 1

Muscle cells (fibers) are

Answer 1

-contractile- get shorter
-extensible- get longer
-elastic- return to normal shape after getting shorter/longer

-excitable-can create and carry electrochemical signais
(Sliding filament Theory)

Question 2

Endomysium

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Surrounds muscle cell

Question 3

Transverse (T) -tubule is

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inward Projections of cell membrane (sarcol emma) that go through in a transverse direction through cell

Question 4

Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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stores a releases ca+ ions (specialized ER)

Question 5

Myofibrils are

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Little fiber inside muscle cell

Question 6

Triad is

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Terminal cisternae on each side of the T-tubule

Question 7

Order of muscle cell

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Myofilaments are inside myofibrils→ inside muscle fibers (cells) → inside the muscle fascicles → inside muscle (organ)

Question 8

Thick filament is

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Myosin (head)

Question 9

Thin filaments are

-consists of

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Actins

-tropomyosin
-troponin

Question 10

Tropomyosin is

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(Rope) Strings along actin and covers the active sites

Question 11

Troponin is

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Proteins scattered across tropomyosin
(Moves protein)

Question 12

Sarcomere

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functional unit of skeletal muscle contraction

Question 13

•When we establish a RMP
-90 mv) we say the cm is

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Polarized

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when the Na+ is rushing in the cmis

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Depolarized

Question 15

Myographs

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Generates recordings of a muscle twitch

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•muscle twitch (single twitch)

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response of muscle fiber to a single action Potential in a motor neuron
(Spits out 1 ACh)

Question 17

•unfused tetanus

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muscle fiber Not allowed to relax complety between stimuli
(spits out mult. Ach fast; like 30-50 times per min)

Question 18

Fused tetanus

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muscle fibers NoT allowed to relax between stimuli
-tension remains constant at maximal level
-Spits Ach out about 40-60 times/min

TENSION HIGHEST HERE

Question 19

when Ach is no longer being spat out what happens

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Muscle relaxes

Question 20

If skeletal muscle cells follow the “All or Nothing Principle”.
…How do we create varying
amounts of force?

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we decide how many cells to use to create force we need

Question 21

Motor unit

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1 motor neuron and the muscle fibers it’s controls ( spits out)

-some motor units are as small as 2to 3 muscle fibers

AVERAGE SIZE IN HUMANS- 150 muscle cells per motor unit

Question 22

Differential recruitment

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usin different numbers of motor units for Particular actions

-small effort =fewer motor units
- recruiting all motor units =greatest force generated

Question 23

Isotonic contraction is

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Tension- constant
Length -changes

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Isometric contraction

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Length is constant (no change)

Tension changes

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Isotonic CONCENTRIC contraction

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Muscle shortens (regular contraction)

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Isotonic ECCENTRIC contraction

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Muscle gets longer while contracting

Question 27

Where do cells get ATP

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They make it

Question 28

2molecules that help (a little bit) with ATP. Production

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1: myoglobin 2: creatine PhosPhate

Question 29

Myoglobin

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Provides little more 02 (for more aerobic metabolism) (Red)

Question 30

creatine PhosPhate

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can provide extra Phosphates for ATP Production for about 10-15 secs.

Question 31

To get muscles larger & Stronger - you have to

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Increase diameter of muscle fibers (Makes cells we have bigger doesn’t create new cells)

Question 32

Oxygen debt is

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the 02 needed to restore pre-work conditions to a muscle

Question 33

If ATP'S run out in a muscle what happens?

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The muscle stays how it was when the ATP ran out because the myosin heads can’t release because their is no more ATP -this causes rigor morris

Question 34

smooth muscle fibers binds different than skeletal muscle in that

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Calcium Ca+ - binds too calmodulin (not troponin) -calmodulin actives enzyme —> myasin light chain kinase ( allows myosin to attach to actins)

Question 35

Smooth muscles still BUT do what differently than skeletal muscles

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Contract and move Have myosin’s and actins Have different arrangement of myofilaments

Question 36

•atrophy means

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decrease in size of cell due to lose of myofibrils

Question 37

hypertrophy means

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increase in cell size, increase number of myofibrils and diameter of muscle cells

Question 38

Lactic acid is

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Muscles and red blood cells produce lactic acid when body breaks down glucose and there isn’t enough oxygen to create its normal energy

Question 39

Myasthenia Gravis

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Weakness and rapid fatigue of muscles under voluntary control

Question 40

Tendinitis is

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Inflammation of a tendon from injury or overuse of

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Duchenne muscuar dystrophy is

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Inherited disorder of progressive muscular weakness -typically in boys

Question 42

Duchenne muscuar dystrophy is

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Inherited disorder of progressive muscular weakness -typically in boys

Question 43

aponeurosis means

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a thin sheath of connective tissue that helps connect your muscles to your bones.

Question 44

fixator means

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a muscle that stabilizes or fixes a part of the body to which a muscle in the process of moving another part is attached.