Intro Flashcards
4 main functions of muscles
Movement
Body position
Heat
Storing/moving substances
Movement occurs as a result of -
muscular contraction
How do muscles assist in body position?
Continual partila contraction provides posture and balance
What produces heat?
Muscle contraction
What is the process by which muscles produce heat called?
thermogenisis
Thermogenisis contributes to which bodily system essential for homeostasis?
Core temperature
3 examples of how muscles store/move substances
Sphincters - prevent out-flow from hollow organ - stomach/bladder
Contraction/relaxation of smooth muscle in blood vessels helps adjust blood flow
Smooth muscle contractions move food through the gastrointestinal tract, propel urine and push gametes.
4 properties of muscle -
CEEE
Contractability
Excitability - can be triggered by nerve impulses
Extensibility - can stretch without being damaged
Elasticity - returns to original shape after contraction/extension
2 types of muscle - (S)
Striated and non-striated
2 types of striated muscle
Skeletal
cardiac
type of non-striated muscle
smooth
What is skeletal muscle?
VOLUNTARY
attached to bone/cartilage
What is Cardiac muscle
INVOLUNTARY
AUTORYTHMIC
What is smooth muscle
INVOLUNTARY
DO NOT TIRE!
Where can you find smooth muscle?
walls of hollow organs (guts, bladder)
blood vessels
eye (pupil dilation)
Define autorythmic
Contraction without direct nervous stimulation
How is skeletal muscle structured?
Parellel muscle fibres
multi nucleated
How is smooth muscle structured?
Randomly arranged contractile proteins
1 nucleus per cell
A unique feature of cardiac muscle?
Intercalated discs
Muscle cells are known as x or x?
Muscle fibres or myocytes
Which is the longest cell in the body
myocyte
how long is a myocyte?
10-30cm
How are muscle fibres formed?
From the embryonic fusion of myoblasts.
What do muscle fibres lose the ability to do once they are mature?
Undergo Mitosis
Are the number of skeletal muscle fibres each person has set before birth?
yes
Muscle growth, or enlargement of existing fibres is known as -
Hypertrophy
Can muscle cells regenerate?
it is limited. Via Satellite cells.
Flesh/muscle in latin is -
sarco