Exam 2 – Lecture 11: Muscle Flashcards
What is the only thing muscles can do actively?
Get shorter
What are the names of muscles based on?
Morphology and activity
What is a muscle?
A tissue type
A specific mass of muscle tissue with origin, insertion, and action
What is a myofiber?
Individual muscle cell
What is a myofibril?
Contractile elements within a myofiber
Bundles of myofilaments
What can the shape of a muscle be like?
Flattened or cylindrical
What does the arrangement of myofibers determine?
Mobility/dexterity
What are the layers of a muscle fiber?
Epimysium
Perimysium
Endomysium
What is epimysium?
Connective tissue that surrounds the muscle
What is perimysium?
Connective tissue around a bundle (muscle fascicle)
What is a muscle fascicle made of?
Many myofibers
What is endomysium?
Connective tissue that surrounds each individual myofiber
What is a myofiber like?
Elongated
Frequently multinucleated
Contains filaments or fibrils
What are the different types of filaments?
Actin, thin (6-8 nm)
Myosin, thick (15 nm)
What are the different categories of morphology?
Smooth striated
What are the different categories of activity?
Voluntary
Involuntary
Describe skeletal muscle
Voluntary, striated
Multinucleated
What does skeletal muscle act as?
Syncytium
Where are the nuclei of skeletal muscle located?
In the periphery of the cell