Exam 3 - Lecture 7 Flashcards
A-band on microscope
Entire dark area
Length-tension relationship
Essentially is looking at how well a muscle is being stretched out. Tension developed in % is the y axis, length of sarcomere is X axis. If its under or overstretched, you get less force.
The length-tension relationship is measuring the
active tension
Passive tension
The stretch/pulling force put on the muscle, no contraction involved (not being produced by muscle by action potential)
Active tension
Muscle contraction, when an action potential hits the muscle and causes it to shorten.
Total tension
Active + passive tension.
If you subtract passive tension from total tension, you get
active tension
If we use a really heavy weight, it’ll __________ the muscle and it ___________
Overstretch; wont contract
Load/contraction velocity diagram
Increased load = Decreased muscle contraction speed.
The heavier the load, the slower the muscle will contract.
Quantal summation
Recruiting more and more motor units (number of) to generate more muscle contraction. Regulated in a step-like fashion by recruiting additional motor units one by one, and each additional unit produces a quantum of force, and the overall force is the sum of these quanta.
Where is load/contraction velocity diagram most important?
Cardiac muscle, as excessive load (fluid) could make the heart take longer to eject the blood which interrupts the next cycle
Voltage/recruitment
Recruiting larger and larger motor units, takes more voltage to recruit the larger muscles, voltage refers to strength of electrical stimulus.
Temporal (time) summation
This involves the timing or frequency of stimulation. When stimuli are applied to a muscle in rapid succession, the muscle has less and less time to relax between stimuli. This results in increased force with each stimulus, as the twitched begin to add up (summate) over time. More frequent, the stronger the contraction.
hertz is
number of stimuli per second, so 1hz is 1 stimuli per second.
After about 10-12 hertz, the twitches become
additive and not allowing the muscle to fully relax before contracting again.
The muscle is continuing to contract, adding on top of each other.
Ca++ is coming out of the sarcoplasmic reticulum faster than it can be put back in.
Tetanization
At roughly 40hz, we have so much calcium inside the cell, we are now longer seeing twitches in the muscle because the calcium receptors in the muscle are saturated.
Generates 3x as much force as it recruits more motor units.
Tetany
State of sustained muscle contraction that occurs when stimuli are delivered so rapidly that the muscle does not have time to relax between stimuli, leading to maximal and continuous contraction. May be incomplete (slight relaxation in between stimuli) or complete (smooth, sustained contraction)
If we dont use our muscles for a long period of time, ________ can occur.
Atrophy
Atrophy leads to what specifically?
Losing the myofibrils within the cells, leading to atrophy. If its an extended period of time, the entire muscle cell can start to disappear.
Skeletal muscle cells are difficult to
replace
If you have a spinal cord injury, you’ll need to pay someone to come and _______, if you have hopes that you will someday regain the ability to move these muscles.
Stimulate your muscles with action potentials to keep them alive and prevent complete atrophy
Hypertrophy
Adding myofibrils to skeletal muscle cells.
A large part of tissue mass will be blood vessel network in skeletal muscle, increases vascular bed size.
Hyperplasia
Happens at a very low rate, creates new skeletal muscle cells.He
Heart muscle is capable of replacing _________ but happens at__________
Dead cells; a very slow rate.
If you have minimal cardiac injury, heart can ________ recover. But not ___________.
replicate cells slowly and; for a large injury.
The downside of anything that increases cell division/regrowth is that it
Increases chance of cancer.
Smooth vs skeletal muscle (5 things)
Stronger (per gram basis)
More efficient
A little slower
Slower cross-bridge cycling
Latch mechanism
Skeletal is _____ of body weight and smooth muscle is ________ of our body weight.
40%;10%
Parts of body that has smooth muscle
intestines, blood vessels, lungs (and all over the place)
Smooth muscle has much more _____ than skeletal muscle
Variety/specialized
why is smooth muscle more efficient?
The cross-bridge cycling occurs at a much slower pace, and it takes the myosin heads longer to release from the actin filaments, conserving some of the tension.
Latch mechanism
Slower cross-bridge cycling on steroids, to the point where myosin heads are difficult to be removed, maintaining force that was previously generated, and the myosin head just hangs onto actin molecules. Smooth muscle maintains force of contraction for a long time while using very little energy. In the skeletal muscle, its constantly using ATP to maintain the same contraction.
Structure of vascular smooth muscle from out to in
Adventitia, Medial muscle fibers, endothelium
Smooth muscles are connected to neighbors via
Gap junctions
Actin to myosin ratio in skeletal muscle
2:1
Actin to myosin ratio in smooth muscle
10-20:1
Myosin to actin ratio in skeletal muscle
1:2
Myosin to actin ratio in smooth muscle
1:10-20
Much more _______ than ________ in smooth muscle
actin; myosin
Equivalent to Z-discs in smooth muscle
Dense bodies. Spherical shaped bodies that actin is anchored to.
What are dense bodies connected to?
Actin and are also structurally linked to neighboring smooth muscle cells, and is used as an anchor to use force.
Amount of calcium in internal storage for smooth muscle
Much less than in skeletal muscle, SR is less developed than cardiac and skeletal muscle.
Smooth muscle is dependent on ______ calcium
outside
A less well-developed SR will have less _____
calcium
How does calcium get into smooth muscle cells?
Leak, voltage gated, or ligand gated
Why can you have low blood pressure in relation to calcium?
Hypocalcemia can cause low blood pressure cause smooth muscle doesn’t have enough calcium to constrict the blood vessels, and the heart doesn’t eject as much blood for same reason. But it is more related to lack of vasoconstriction.
Most smooth muscle is set up in what fashion? And what are they called?
unitary fashion, functioning as a unit so what happens in one muscle cell, is what also happens to its neighbors via gap junctions, and these are called visceral smooth muscle cells
Intestinal smooth muscle functions as
visceral smooth muscle
Multi-unit smooth muscle and what it allow for?
No pathways for ions to move between neighboring cells, allowing for graded/precise/delicate control.
Mult-unit smooth muscle is entirely dependent on ____ to tell it what to do?
Neurotransmitter in the area
Ciliary and iris muscles in the eye are gonna use what type of smooth muscle?
Multi-unit, because it needs fine-tuned accurate control.
Vast majority of the body uses
visceral smooth muscle
Vascular smooth muscle uses what type of smooth muscle?
Visceral smooth muscle
Esophagus is the oddball muscle why?
hybrid muscle where it uses smooth muscle and skeletal muscle.
Adventitia
structural support, outermost layer of vascular smooth muscle
Endothelial cells
Innermost layer of entire circulatory system in every blood vessel
Almost every blood vessel will have
smooth muscle