Chapter 7 Flashcards
Define muscle tone.
Muscle tone is the amount of tension (or resistance to movement) in muscles.
What is the primary source for the muscular system?
Provide movement for the body. The muscles receive their ability to move the body through the nervous system.
Specifically, what is responsible for the banding pattern in skeletal muscle cells?
The alignment of the bands on the myofilaments is responsible for the banding pattern in skeletal muscle cells.
Identify if what is Action Potential?
It occurs when the excitable cell is stimulated. It is a reversal of the resting membrane potential such that the inside of cell membrane becomes positively charge compared with the outside
Define adenelyte kinase.
It transfers one phosphate from one ADP to a second ADP, resulting in one ATP and one AMP.
Define excess post exercise oxygen consumption.
The lag time between breathing returns to its pre exercise rate once exercise stops.
Where does stenocleidomastoid easily seen? Explain its contraction.
It is easily seen on the anterior and lateral sides of the neck. It is a contaction of only one muscle that rotates the head it can either flex or extend the head and neck.
What is the muscle that can be found on the posterior surface of the leg?
Gastrocnemius
What is tendon and the function of it?
A tendon is a fibrous connective tissue that attaches to the bone and it serves to move the bone or structure
What are the phases of twitch?
lag phase
contraction phase
relaxation phase
What is anaerobic respiration?
does not require dioxygen and involves the breakdown of glucose to produce ATP and lactate.
What are the two main aspects of muscle fiber contraction?
Electrical component & Mechanical component
What are the two types of ion channels?
Leak and gated
This is a rapid event that will cause the sarcomers to shorten and the muscle will contract.
Cross-Bridge Movement
It consists of a single motor neuron and all the muscle fibers innervates.
motor units
It transfers the phosphate from creatine phosphate to ADP that will immediately produce ATP.
Creatine kinase
What is the first step of anaerobic respiration of enzymatic pathway?
Glycolysis
t occurs when there is too little ATP to bind to the myosin myofilaments.
Physiological contraction B
It is a band of connective tissue that holds fown the tendons at each wrist and ankles.
Retinaculum
How do the movements promoted by skeletal muscle differ from those promoted by smooth muscle?
Skeletal muscle movements can be very forcedul and rapid, whereas smooth muscle movements tend to be slow and ofrern rhythmic
It is the electrical charge difference across the cell membrane of an unstimulated cell is called
Resting Membrane Potential
What would happen to skeletal muscle if the epimysium were destroyed?
Muscles would lose their integrity during powerful movements, resulting in muscle damage
Are specialized nerve cells that stimulate muscles to contract?
motor neurons
Each branch forms a junction with a muscle fiber called.
neuromuscular junction