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1
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4 main functions of muscles

A

Movement
Body position
Heat
Storing/moving substances

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2
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Movement occurs as a result of -

A

muscular contraction

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3
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How do muscles assist in body position?

A

Continual partila contraction provides posture and balance

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4
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What produces heat?

A

Muscle contraction

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5
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What is the process by which muscles produce heat called?

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thermogenisis

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6
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Thermogenisis contributes to which bodily system essential for homeostasis?

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Core temperature

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7
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3 examples of how muscles store/move substances

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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.

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8
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4 properties of muscle -

A

CEEE
Contractability
Excitability - can be triggered by nerve impulses
Extensibility - can stretch without being damaged
Elasticity - returns to original shape after contraction/extension

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9
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2 types of muscle - (S)

A

Striated and non-striated

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10
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2 types of striated muscle

A

Skeletal

cardiac

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11
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type of non-striated muscle

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smooth

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12
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What is skeletal muscle?

A

VOLUNTARY

attached to bone/cartilage

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13
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What is Cardiac muscle

A

INVOLUNTARY

AUTORYTHMIC

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14
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What is smooth muscle

A

INVOLUNTARY

DO NOT TIRE!

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15
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Where can you find smooth muscle?

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walls of hollow organs (guts, bladder)
blood vessels
eye (pupil dilation)

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16
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Define autorythmic

A

Contraction without direct nervous stimulation

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17
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How is skeletal muscle structured?

A

Parellel muscle fibres

multi nucleated

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18
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How is smooth muscle structured?

A

Randomly arranged contractile proteins

1 nucleus per cell

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19
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A unique feature of cardiac muscle?

A

Intercalated discs

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20
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Muscle cells are known as x or x?

A

Muscle fibres or myocytes

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21
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Which is the longest cell in the body

A

myocyte

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22
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how long is a myocyte?

A

10-30cm

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23
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How are muscle fibres formed?

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From the embryonic fusion of myoblasts.

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24
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What do muscle fibres lose the ability to do once they are mature?

A

Undergo Mitosis

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25
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Are the number of skeletal muscle fibres each person has set before birth?

A

yes

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26
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Muscle growth, or enlargement of existing fibres is known as -

A

Hypertrophy

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27
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Can muscle cells regenerate?

A

it is limited. Via Satellite cells.

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28
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Flesh/muscle in latin is -

A

sarco

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29
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Mycoctyes or Muscle fibres are made up of many -

A

Myofibrils

30
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Myofibrils are made up of thick and thin microfilaments or myofilaments called -

A

Myosin - thick

Actin - thin

31
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A repeating section of Myofibril is called a -

32
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Each Myofibril is covered in -

A

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

33
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum stores -

34
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tubes extending from the plasma membrane surface into the muscle cell are called -

A

Transverse Tubules

T Tubules

35
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Muscle cell cytoplasm is known as

A

sarcoplasm

36
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sarcoplasm is arranged as

A

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

37
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Each myofibril is surrounded by

A

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

38
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What travel through the sarcolemma and transverse tubules, spreading through muscle to cause contraction?

A

Action Potentials

39
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In sarcomeres, dark ares where myofilaments overlap are

40
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in sarcomeres light area of non-overlap are -

41
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3 connective tissues in and around muscles are -

A

Epimyseum
Perimysium
Endomysium

42
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Wrapped around entire muscles you will find the -

43
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The epimysium serves as an actor point for

A

fascia
tendons
ligaments

44
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What is the perimysium

A

Invagination of Epimyseum around fascicles

45
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Where would you find the Endomyseum

A

around individual muscle cells

46
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Are the Epimysium, perimysium and Endomysium all connected to each other?

A

yes (invagination)

47
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what is a motor neuron?

A

nerve cell

48
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What is a motor end plate?

A

termination of motor neurons in minute pads on the muscle fibre

49
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The meeting point where a motor end plate meets the muscle fibre is known as -

A

Neuromuscular junction

50
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The neurotransmitter that bridges the junction gap is -

A

ACETYLCHOLINE

51
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1 nerve fibre and it’s corresponding muscle fibres is a

A

motor unit

52
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the strength of a muscle contraction depends on what

A

the number of motor units in action at a time

53
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What is a motor unit?

A

1 nerve fibre and its corresponding muscle fibres

54
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3 steps of contraction in SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY

A

1) Nerve fibre stimulation at the NEUROMUSCULAR JUNcTION
2) ACTION POTENTIAL spreads from nerve, along SARCOLEMMA & T TUBULES into muscle cell releasing Calcium from the SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM.
3) CALCIUM & ATP trigger MYOSIN to bind to ACTIN to they slide/pull together, shortening fibre = CONTRACTION.

55
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ATP is short for

A

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE

56
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3 steps of relaxation in SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY

A

1) NERVE stimulation stops
2) MAGNESIUM & ATP pumps Calcium back into storage, breaking ACTIN/MYOSIN bond.
3) Actin & Myosin slide back, lengthening fibre = RELAXATION

57
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What effect does Magnesium have on muscle fibres?

A

Makes them LESS EXCITABLE and prevents MYOSIN binding with ACTIN.

58
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Why would an Epsom salt bath help your muscles to relax?

A

The Magnesium would stop the Myosin binding with Actin.

59
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What is the theory of how muscles move called?

A

SLIDING FILAMENT THEORY

60
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Muscle contraction require large amounts of -

61
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ATP is converted into x and x

A

energy and heat

62
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metabolism definition

A

Breakdown of compounds to produce energy (ATP) for bodily functions

63
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Muscles need a good X supply

A

blood supply

64
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What does blood do for muscles?

A

provides OXYGEN & NUTRIENTS

removes WASTE

65
Q

ATP is derived from the breakdown/metabolism of what?

A

Carbohydrates (glucose)
Fats
Proteins

66
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Shape of SR?

A

Foam net around each myofibril

67
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Oxygen-binding protein present in Sarcoplasm is called -

68
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Muscles get their oxygen from -

69
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How many Mitochondria in a Myofibril?

70
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difference between ligament & tendon

A

tendon binds bone to muscle, ligament binds bone to bone

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