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Chapter 9 - Muscles and Muscle Tissue Flashcards

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What are the 3 types of tissues?

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Skeletal, smooth, cardiac

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Describe skeletal muscles (5).

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skeletal muscle: organs that attach bones and skin
- fibers: longest and have striations (stripes)
- called voluntary muscle since can be controlled
- contract rapidly and get tired easily
-Key words: striations, voluntary, skeletal

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Describe cardiac muscle (3).

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  • makes up most of heart wall
  • contracts at steady rate because it is a pacemaker but heart increases rate
  • Key words: cardiac, striated, involuntary
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Describe Smooth Muscle.

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  • tissue: found in walls of hollow organs ex. stomach, bladder and airways
  • Key words: visceral, nonstriated and involuntary
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What are the 4 main characteristic all muscles share?

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Excitability (responsiveness): ability to receive and respond to stimuli
Contractility: ability to shorten forcibly when stimulated
Extensibility: ability to be stretched
Elasticity: ability to recoil to resting length

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What are the 4 functions of muscles?

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  • produce movement: responsible for all locomotion and manipulation ex. walking, digestion, pumping blood
  • maintaining posture and body position
  • stabilizing joints
  • generate heat as they contract
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What are the 2 types of attachments for muscles?

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direct (fleshy) attachments: epimysium fused to periosteum of bone or perichondrium of cartilage

indirect attachments: connective tissue, epinysium, perimysium and endomysiumform complex at endof muscle

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What are the things that make up skeletal muscle (4).

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  • nerves and blood supply
  • connective tissue sheaths
  • attachments
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What does each muscle receive?

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  • nerve
  • artery
  • veins
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What does consciously controlled skeletal muscles have?

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They have nerves supplying every fiber.

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What do contracting muscle fibers need and produce?

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Need: large amounts of oxygen and nutrients
Produce: waste products

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What are muscles fibers covered with and what does it support?

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connective tissue (endomysium)
- supports cells and reinforces whole muscle

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What is the difference between the sarcolemma and the sarcoplasm?

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SL - muscle fiber plasma membrane
SP - muscle fiber cytoplasm
- Contains many glycosomes for glycogen storage, as well as myoglobin for oxygen storage

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What are the different levels of the sheaths from external to internal?

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Epimysium: dense irregular connective tissue surrounding entire muscle; may blend with fascia
Perimysium: fibrous connective tissue surrounding fascicles (groups of muscle fibers)
Endomysium: fine areolar connective tissue surrounding each muscle fiber

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What are the structures within skeletal muscle cells?

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  • Myofibrils
  • sarcoplasmic reticulum
  • t tubules
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What is a myofibril and how much of the muscle volume does it take up?

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dense packed and rodlike elements
- a single muscle fiber contains 1000s
- 80%

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What characteristics do myofibrils contain?

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  • striations
  • sarcomeres
  • myofilaments
  • molecular composition of myofilaments (actin and myosin)
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What is the difference between the A Band and the I band?

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AB: dark region
- H zone: lighter region in middle of A band
- M line: line of protein (myomesin) that
bisects (divides in 2 lines) H zone
vertically
IB: lighter region
- Z disc (line): coin-shaped sheet of proteins on midline of light I band

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Describe Sarcomeres.

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  • smallest contractile unit (functional unit) of muscle fiber
  • contains A band with half of an I band at each end
    - consists of area between Z discs
  • individual sarcomeres algin end to end along myofibril, like boxcars of train
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What is a myofilament?

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arrangement of actin and myosin
- actin: thin filament - extend across I band and partway in A band, anchored to Z disc
- myosin microfil: think filament - extends length of A band, connected to M line

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Explain the composition of myosin.

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contains two heavy and four light polypeptide chains
- heavy: intertwine to form myosin tail
- light: form globular head
- head links to thin filament to form cross bridging
- 2 heads are off set

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What is the molecular composition of myofilaments (3 [5])?

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Elastic fibers: made of protein titin
- holds thick filament in place; helps with recoil, resist over stretching

Dystrophin
- links thin filament to sarcolemma

Nebulin, myomesin and C protein: bind filament or sarcomeres together
- maintain alignment of sarcomere

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Explain the composition of actin and their regulatory proteins.

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polypeptide made of kidney shaped G-actin (globular) subunits
- G actin bears active sites for myosin head to attach during contractions
- G actin link together to form F actin (filamentous)

RP: tropomyosin and troponin

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Explain the role of Sarcoplasmic reticulum.

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SR: network of smooth endoplasmic reticulum tubules surrounding each myofibril
- run longitudinally
- terminal cisterns form perpendicular cross channels at the A-I band junction
- SR functions in regulation of intracellular Ca2+ levels
- stores and releases Ca2+

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Explain the function of T tubules (6).
Formed by protrusion of sarcolemma deep into cell interior - Increase muscle fiber’s surface area - Lumen continuous with extracellular space - Allow electrical transmissions to reach interior of each muscle fiber - Tubules penetrate cell’s interior at each A–I band junction between terminal cisterns Triad: area formed from terminal cistern of one sarcomere, T tubule, and terminal cistern of neighboring sarcomere
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What are the triad relationship (5)?
T tubule contains integral membrane proteins into intermembrane space (between tubule and muscle fiber sarcolemma) - T proteins act as voltage sensors that change shape S R cistern membranes also have integral membrane proteins that protrude into intermembrane space - S R integral proteins control opening of calcium channels in S R cisterns - with impulses, T tubule proteins change shape, causing S R proteins to change shape, causing release of calcium into cytoplasm
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Explain contractions in relation to muscle fibers (3).
activation of cross bridges to generate force - occurs when forces exceeds forces opposing shortening Sliding filament model of contraction: thin filaments slide past thick filaments (actin and myosin overlap) - don't change shape
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Which structures are involved in shortening of muscle fibers?
- I band shorten - Z disc become closer - H zones disappear - A bands move closer to each other
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Explain the location and function of axons in skeletal muscles.
stimulated by somatic motor neurons - axons travel from CNS to skeletal muscle - divides into branches to form neuromuscular junctions and motor end plate
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How does AP cross from neuron to muscle cell?
Acetylcholine
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Explain neuromuscular junction.
- motor neuron contacts the skeletal muscle - consists of multiple axon terminal and the underlaying junctions folds of the sarcolemma
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Explain end-plate potential.
- ACh released from motor neuron binds to ACh receptors on sarcolemma - cause chemically gated ion channels (ligands) on sarcolemma to open - Na+ diffuses in, interior of sarcolemma becomes less negative
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What are the 3 steps of AP for skeletal muscles ?
- Generation of end plate potential - Depolarization - Repolarization
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Explain depolarization.
- if end plate potential causes enough change, voltage-gated - Na+ channels open - AP spreads across sarcolemma from one voltage gated Na+ channel to the next
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Explain repolarization.
Na+ voltage-gated channels close, and voltage-gated K+ channels open K+ efflux out of cell rapidly brings cell back to initial resting membrane voltage - refractory period: muscle fiber cannot be stimulated for a specific time, until repolarization is complete
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What is special about AP in muscle fibers?
They don't have a hyperpolarization period
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Explain Excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling.
events that transmit AP along sarcolemma (excitation) are coupled to sliding of myofilaments (contraction) - AP propagated into T tubules where it stimulates the release of Ca2+ from SR
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What are the 4 steps of the cross bridge cycle?
1)Formation of cross bridging 2) the power stroke fueled by ADP and Pi 3) cross bridging detachments 4) returns back to pre stroke formation
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explain what a muscle twitch is.
simplest contraction resulting from a muscle fiber’s response to a single action potential from motor neuron
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What are the three phases of muscle twitch?
Latent: events of excitation-contraction coupling - no muscle tension seen Contractions: cross bride formation - tension increase Relaxation: Ca2+ reentry into SR - tension declines
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What are the 3 ways responses are graded by?
- changing frequency of stimulation - changing strength of stimulation - muscle response to change in stimulus frequency - single stimulus results in single contractile response
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Draw and describe the 4 types of temporal summation.
- individual twitches - temporal summation - unfused tetanus - fused tetanus
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What is recruitments?
stimulus is sent to more muscle fibers, leading to more precise control
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What are the 3 types of stimulus involved in recruitment?
Subthreshold: stimulus not strong enough, so no contractions seen Threshold: stimulus is strong enough to cause first observable contraction Maximal: strongest stimulus that increases maximum contractile force - all motor units have been recruited
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How does size effect recruitment?
- smaller fibers are recruited first then larger fibers (only for powerful contractions) - some contract while others don't to fight against fatigue
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What are the 2 types of contractions and explain?
Isometric: no shortening; muscle tension increases but does not exceed load Isotonic: muscle shortens because muscle tension exceeds load - concentric contractions: muscle shortens and does work - eccentric: muscle lengthens and generates force
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What are the three mechanisms for regenerating ATP?
- direct phosphorylation of ADP by creatine phosphate (CP) - anaerobic - glycolysis and lactate formation - aerobic - glycolysis and aerobic respiration in mitochondria
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What is the difference between short distance and prolonged duration exercise when it comes to ATP generation.
SD - uses ATP stored in muscles then ATP generated by creatine and ADP then glycogen LD- generates ATP from other nutrients by aerobic pathway
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Explain Muscle fatigue.
the inability to contract despite stimulation causes: Ionic imbalances K, Na and Ca levels can change membrane potentials - increased Pi from CP and ATP interfere with calcium release in SR - decreased levels ATP means increased levels Mg which interferes with voltage sensitive T tubules - decreased glycogen
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What are the 4 things the force of muscle contractions depend on?
1) frequency of stimulation 2) number of muscle fibers stimulated (recruitment) 3) size of muscle fibers 4) degree of muscle stretch: if stretched to various lengths and maximally stimulated, the tension generated varies
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Which stretch length percentage is optimal?
80% to 120%
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How fast and long muscle fibers contract for is determined by ...
- muscle fiber type - load and recruitment
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What are the muscle fiber characteristic for contractions?
speed: speed which myosin ATPases splits ATP - electrical activity of motor neurons metabolic pathway for ATP synthsis - oxidative fibers: use aerobic pathways - glycolytic fibers: use anaerobic glycolysis
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What are the 3 fibers types for contractile speed?
slow oxidative fibers: low-intensity, endurance activities fast oxidative fibers: medium-intensity activates fast glycolic fibers: short-term intense or powerful movements
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What are the 2 layers of smooth tissue?
Longitudinal layer: fibers run parallel to long axis of organ - contraction causes organ to shorten - more space circular layer: fibers run around circumference of organ - contraction causes less space
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5 Characteristics of smooth muscles.
- are spindle-shaped - have only 1 nucleus - lack the coarse connective tissue sheaths found in skeletal muscles (only have endomysium) - has varicosities (bulbous swellings) instead of neuromuscular junctions - less elaborate SR and no T tubules
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What is different between skeletal and smooth muscle when it comes to excitation-contraction coupling?
calcium doesn't bind to troponin like it does in skeletal muscle

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