Exam 2 LO Flashcards
Synapse between a somatic motor neuron and skeletal muscle fiber
Neuromuscular junction
What is located in the motor end plate
ACh receptors, Junctional folds
Steps for neuromuscular transmission of skeletal muscle beginning with somatic neuron generating action potential
- Somatic neuron generates action potential from VG Na/K channels to presynaptic axon terminal
- Depolarization opens VG Ca2+ channel and Ca2+ enters channel
- ACh released
- ACh binds to AcH ligand gated receptor on motor end plate
- Binding allows Na+ influx
- Membrane depolarizes, creating an EPP (graded potential) that initiates the action potential
- Opening of VG Na+ channels allows AP to travel through muscle fiber (EPP spreads like Local current flow)
3 ways neurotransmitter (ACh) is removed from synaptic cleft after nerve signaling
Reuptake of ACh
Enzyme degradation by AChE
Diffusion
Excitation Contraction Coupling process (think of picture Dr wu drew of the t tubule)
- AP propagates fast along sarcolemma into t tubules, depolarizing the cell
- AP in t tubules stimulates the DHPR from Ca2+ release
- DHPR is linked to RyR, Ca2+ binds to RyR in SR and RyR opens releasing Ca2+
- Ca2+ exits SR, flowing down concentration gradient into sarcoplasm
- Ca binds to troponin on actin, changing the shape, and moving tropomyosin away from the myosin binding sites on actin
- Myosin head hydrolysis ATP
- Myosin head binds to actin and phosphate is released forming a crossbridge
- Myosin head executes a power stroke
- Crossbridge remains attached to actin until a new ATP binds to myosin
What happens in a power stroke
Myosin head pivots, pulling thin filament past thick filament toward the center of the sacromere—releasing ADP
Allows AP to move quickly from cell to cytosol
T tubules
Stores calcium
SR
Thin filament, calcium sensor triggers muscle contraction
Troponin
Blocks myosin binding sites on thin filament during relaxation, moves out of the way during muscle contraction
Tropomyosin
In the presence of calcium in the contraction cycle…
Myosin and actin bind and form a crossbridge
Sliding of the thin filaments and Z discs coming closer together results in what sacromere length
Shortened length
What is the role of SERCA
Pumps calcium from sarcoplasm into the SR after contraction
What leads to stop in muscle contraction and muscle relaxes
SERCA
SERCA pumps calcium back into SR going
Against gradient
3 roles of ATP in skeletal muscle contraction and relaxation
- ATP hydrolysis by SERCA provides energy for active transport of calcium into SR (muscle relaxation)
- ATP provides energy for crossbridge
- New atp binding to myosin allows for detachment
Energy sources for muscle contraction
Creatine Kinase, glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation
Creatine kinase, glycolysis, and oxidative phosphorylation
- type of reaction
Creatine kinase= 1 step rxn
Glycolysis and phosphorylation= multi step
What must occur first before oxidative phosphorylation
Glycolysis to make 2 pyruvic acid from glucose
Transfers phosphate to ADP to regenerate ATP
Creatine kinase
Storehouse of high energy phosphate at rest
Creatine kinase
How long does creatine kinase last? What does it power? How fast is atp production?
Provides atp during first few seconds of contraction, atp production rapid but limited, powers very short periods of muscle activity
Glycolysis is what kind of process (think metabolism)
Anaerobic, converts 1 glucose to 2 ATP
Occurs in high intensity exercise
Glycolysis
Glycolysis powers what type of activity?
Powers short periods of muscle activity
Oxidative phosphorylation requires what
O2
Oxidative phosphorylation converts what to what
1 glucose to 36 atp (and fatty acids and amino acids)
Oxidative phosphorylation occurs in the
Mitochondria
Oxidative phosphorylation, after glycolysis, gives what fuel
Fatty acids
Oxidative phosphorylation powers what exercise
Powers extended periods of muscle activity
Muscle fiber types are classified by their
Max velocity or shortening and pathways for ATP formation
Postural muscles and endurance activities use what muscle fiber
Slow oxidative
Slow oxidative muscle fibers:
- Diameter size
- Less or more tension development
- type of metabolism
- fast or slow myosin ATPase
- resistance to fatigue
Small diameter
Slow tension development
Aerobic metabolism, uses oxidative phosphorylation
Slow myosin ATPase
Resistant to fatigue
Fast oxidative muscle fiber:
- diameter
- tension development
- type of metabolism
- fast or slow myosin ATPase
- resistance to fatigue
Large diameter
Faster tension development than slow oxidative muscles
Anaerobic and aerobic (oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis)
Fast myosin ATPase
Somewhat resistant to fatigue
Sprinting involves what type of muscle fiber
Fast oxidative
Fast glycolytic muscle fibers:
- tension development
- diameter
- fast or slow myosin ATPase
- type of metabolism
- fuels what?
- myoglobin amount
- resistance to fatigue
Most tension, fastest development
Large diameter
Fast myosin ATPase
Small myoglobin amounts, less capillaries
Prone to fatigue
What type of muscle fiber controls explosive movements such as weight lifting or fast, forceful movements
Fast glycolytic
Factors that do NOT contribute to muscle fatigue
absence of ATP or lactic acid
Factors that do contribute to muscle fatigue
High extracellular K concentration, buildup of ADP that inhibits crossbridge, and disruption of calcium regulation (malfunctioning calcium channels on the SR)
Tension is maintained in what muscle fiber
Slow oxidative
Able to maintain initial tension than decreases to fatigue
Fast oxidative muscle fiber
Most likely to fatigue rapidly
Fast glycolytic muscle fiber
A motor neuron and the population of muscle fibers it innervates
Motor unit
When a large amount of tension needs to be generated…
More motor neurons are recruited
What factors determine the tension developed in a whole muscle
Motor unit size and recruitment
Affects the amount of tension the muscle can generate
Motor unit size
Muscles that control precise movements, such as the hands have what size motor units
Small (less muscle fibers)
When a muscle needs to generate more force during a contraction, more motor units are activated
Motor unit recruitment
How does motor unit recruitment work
Smaller and weaker motor units are recruited first and then larger/stronger motor units added as needed
Duration of a muscle fiber action potential vs. muscle contraction
Muscle fiber Action potential lasts a few seconds (shorter), contraction (twitch) lasts longer because of latent, contraction, and relaxation phase
Why is contraction longer than action potential
Shortness of an AP allows frequency to increase, continuing to release calcium until tetanus
Brief contraction of a group of muscle fibers by a single action potential
Twitch
1 stimulus equals how many twitches
1
Muscle contraction where action potentials continue to fire because calcium continues to be released
Tetanic contraction
Once calcium is present, it binds to troponin and pulls all the tropomyosin away. What is the relationship between this and tetanus
All the myosin binding sites are exposed, max contraction reached
Is a twitch or tetanic contraction smaller, why?
Twitch because less calcium is in the sarcoplasm and ATPase can catch up to calcium being released by 1 stimulus
Isometric vs isotonic muscle contractions
Isometric: tension generated but muscle length doesn’t change while contracting
Isotonic= tension stays the same but muscle length changes
Trying to lift an object too heavy is what contraction
Isometric
A bicep curl is what kind of contraction
Isotonic
How long is the latent period in isometric contractions? Isotonic?
Isometric= short, less calcium released and can’t generate enough tension
Isotonic= longer, able to develop enough tension
Occurs to maintain posture and support objects in a fixed position
Isometric contraction
Tension develops in the muscle, but it doesn’t reach the force needed to move the load
Isometric contraction
Used for moving objects and body movements
Isotonic contraction
Tension generated during contraction is great enough to exceed the load of an object, shortening the muscle
Isotonic contraction
More calcium releases results in a
Higher frequency
More Myosin binding sites exposed=
More contractions
The stretch reflex involves
The tendon reflex involves
The knee jerk reflex involves
The withdrawal reflex involves
Muscle spindles
Golgi tendon organs
Muscle spindles
Nociceptors
Somatic nervous system system:
- pathway
- effectors
- neurotransmitters
- receptor type on effector organ
- action of neurotransmitter on effector
-voluntary or involuntary control
- one neuron pathway
- skeletal muscle
- ach
- cholinergic
- always excitatory (contraction of skeletal muscle)
- voluntary control
Autonomic nervous system system:
- pathway
- effectors
- neurotransmitters
- receptor type on effector organ
- action of neurotransmitter on effector
-voluntary or involuntary control
- two neuron pathway
- smooth, cardiac, glands
- ach or norepi
-cholinergic or adrenergic - excitatory or inhibitory
- involuntary
Describe the two neuron pathway for the autonomic nervous system
- Preganglionic neuron that extends from CNS to an autonomic ganglion
- Post ganglionic neuron extends from autonomic ganglion to effector
OR
preganglionic neuron may extend from CNS to synapse with chromaffin cells of medulla
Responds to overstretching of muscle, controlling muscle length
Muscle spindles
Sensory input directly synapses to motor neuron or effector
Monosynaptic reflex arc
Sensory input enters the spinal cord in the same side motor output exits
Ipsilateral reflex
Interneurons connects sensory and motor neurons
Polysynaptic reflex arc
Respond to excessive muscle tension, causes relaxation, protects tendon and muscle from damage
Golgi tendon organs
What happens in a knee/patellar jerk reflex
- Tap on tendon stimulates muscle spindle to stretch
- AP travels
- In integrating center, sensory neuron synapses in spinal cord activating motor neuron
OR
Interneurons inhibits motor neuron, relaxing hamstring allowing extension of leg through reciprocal innervation
- Motor neuron excited and leads to effector of quadriceps contracting, leg swinging forward
Explain the withdrawal reflex by a nociceptor
- Pain stepping on sharp object stimulates nociceptor
- Sensory neuron excited & in integrating center activates many Spinal cord segments
- Multiple motor neurons excited and either ascend to pain and postural adjustment pathways or withdrawal reflex pulls foot away from stimulus by contracting leg muscles
What level of motor control of brain regions coordinates movements based on intention and sensory feedback
Middle level
Made up of several masses of gray matter found in cerebral hemispheres
Basal nuclei
Controls inititation of movement, suppression of unwanted movements, regulate muscle tone, and regulate non motor processes such as attention, memory, plannings and emotional behavior
Basal nuclei
Monitors intention for movement and actual movement
Cerebellum
Compares command signals with sensory information and sends corrective feedback
Cerebellum,
What brain regions are in the middle level of motor control
Basal nuclei and cerebellum and brainstem
Upper motor neurons from cerebral cortex make up the
Higher centers of control in motor cortex
Involves the sensory, motor, and association cortex, and brainstem
Higher centers in motor control
Helps control posture and balance, regulation of muscle tone, assists with movements of body in response to unexpected stimuli, controls precise and voluntary movements of upper limbs
Brainstem
Voluntary control of muscles of the limbs and trunk though the corticospinal pathway
Primary motor cortex
What tract crosses at the midline if the body at the medulla, responsible for precise and agile movements of hands and feet
Lateral tract
What tract crosses at the midline at spinal cord, responsible for trunk and upper limbs
Ventral tract
Right cerebral cortex controls muscles on the…
Left side of body
Smooth vs skeletal muscle relaxation
Smooth muscle relaxation: decrease calcium in sarcoplasm, dephosphorylation or myosin phosphate
Skeletal: new atp mist bind to myosin on actin for crossbridge to detach
Smooth muscle vs skeletal muscle activation
Smooth muscles have slower contraction speed and contraction is triggered by calcium changes to the thick filament vs the thin filament in skeletal muscle
Smooth muscles have troponin—true or false
False, calcium binds to calmodulin instead to activate cross bridge
Why do smooth muscles contract slower than skeletal muscle?
- No calcium burst, slower diffusion rate
- Rate of action potential, can be uncoupled
- Slower crossbridge formation (no troponin)
Role of calmodulin in smooth muscle
Calcium binds to calmodulin, which binds to MLCK, transfers phosphate and phosphorylated myosin binds actin (forms crossbridge)
There is no need to trigger an action potential in __ muscle because…
Smooth, doesn’t rely on membrane changes from AP
Calcium sources that contribute to smooth muscle activation (contraction)
Extracellular calcium (main source)= enters down gradient by VG calcium channels
SR= release calcium by g coupled receptor
Ligand gated channels, stretch activated sodium and calcium channels are located in
Extracellular concentration for calcium