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L10- Mucles Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 types of muscle tissue?

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Skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle

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Skeletal muscle location & function

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Location = attaches bones across joints

Function = moves joints ➡️moves the body

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Smooth muscle function and location

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Location = around tubes and sacs

Function = open/ close tubes
Regulate diameter of tubes
Propel material through tubes

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Cardiac muscle function and location

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Function: create driving pressure to move blood thoughts vessels

Location= heart

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What muscle tissues are striated?

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Skeletal and cardiac muscle

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6
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What muscle types are voluntary and which are involuntary?

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Skeletal muscle = voluntary

Cardiac and smooth = involuntary

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7
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What is the primary function of skeletal muscle?

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Energy transducer

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What happens in a skeletal muscle when it is contracted vs relaxed?

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Contracted = active
- Motor neuron Ap releases Ach ➡️ binding to Nicotinic receptor ➡️ depolarization = contraction

Relaxation = passive

  • no action potentials to motor neuron
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9
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Structural hierarchy of skeletal muscle

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Muscle ➡️ fascicle ➡️ muscle cell (myofiber) ➡️ myofibril

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Fascicle

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Bundle of muscle cells

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Muscle cell (myofiber)

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Muscle fiber

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12
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Myofibril

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Chain of sarcomeres

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13
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What is a sacromere

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Made up of thick (myosin) and thin (actin) filaments

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14
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Sarcoplasm

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Cytoplasm

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15
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Sarcolemma

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Plasma membrane

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16
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum stores

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Calcium ca+

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17
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What conducts Ap to the sacroplasmic reticulum?

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Transverse (t) tubules

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18
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What is the flow of an action potential traveling down sarcolemma

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Action potential down sarcolemma ➡️ t tubules ➡️ signals saroplasmic reticulum to release ca2+ ➡️ ca2+ bathes myofibers ➡️ initiating contraction

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19
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Sarcomere

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Z disc to z disc

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20
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What are thick and thin filaments made out of?

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Thick = myosin

Thin = actin

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21
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H zone

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Thick filaments only

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A band

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Thick and thin filaments

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23
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I band

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Thin filaments only ( from 2 sacromeres)

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24
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What causes striations in skeletal muscle?

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Overlapping of thin and thick filaments

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25
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What happens when the sacromere shorten?

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A band - stays the same
H zone- shrinks/ disappears
Z bands - shrink / get closer together
I bands - shrink

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26
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What are the binding sites on the thick filament?

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Actin binding site & Myosin ATPase site

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27
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What is the binding site on thin (actin) filaments?

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Myosin binding site

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28
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What are the two regulatory proteins found on thin filament?

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Tropomyosin - covers myosin binding site

Troponin - holds tropomyosin in place

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29
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Cross bridge cycle

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Myosin heads attach to thin filament

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30
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Mechanism of cross bridge cycle

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Cross bridge forms b/w charged myosin head & actin

  1. Myosin head ratchets pulling actin
  2. Myosin heads releases from actin
  3. Myosin head recharged by ATP
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31
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How are myosin heads charged?

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ATP binds to myosin ATPase site on myosin head ➡️ atp is hydrolyzed ➡️ phosphorylates myosin head charging myosin head

32
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Power stroke

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Myosin head ratchets pulling on thin filament

33
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Cross bridge formation

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Charged myosin head binds to actin ➡️shape change ➡️ phosphate releases

34
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What is the role of ca2+ in relaxed muscles?

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No calcium present therefore tropomyosin covers binding sites

35
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What is the role of ca2+ in contracted muscles?

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Ca2+ present therefore it binds to troponin
- troponin then removes tropomyosin allowing myosin head to bind to actin ➡️pulling ( shortening sarcomere)

36
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Action potentials required for ca2+ to be released

True or false

A

True

37
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Excitation contraction coupling

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Turns Ap from motor neuron into Ap in sarcolemma to increase ca2+ concentration allowing for contraction to occur

38
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Neuromuscular junction

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Synapse b/w motor neuron and muscle cell

39
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What are the three components in neuromuscular junction?

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  1. Axon terminal (somatic motor neuron)
  2. Neuromuscular cleft (space)
  3. Motor end plate (muscle cell)
40
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Activation of neuromuscular junction mechanism

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  1. Motor neuron release actin potential
  2. Ca2+ enters voltage gated channel (depolarizing)
  3. Ach releases
  4. Ach binding opens ion channel
  5. Na+ enters
  6. Depolarizing end plate and adjacent muscle plasma membrane
  7. Muscle fiber action potential initiates
  8. Propagated action potential in muscle plasma membrane
  9. Ach is degraded
41
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What is found in the motor end plate?

A

Nicotinic Ach receptors

42
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What is found in the sarcolemma?

A

Voltage gated na+ channels

43
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What are found in transverse (t) tubules?

A

Voltage gated ca2+ channel ➡️triggers ca2+ release channel

44
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What are found in sarcoplasmic reticulum?

A

Mechanically gated ca2+ release channel

45
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What are the two types of contractions?

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Isotonic contraction = same tension; movement

Isometric contraction = same length ; no movement

46
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Muscle twitch

A

Response to a single electrical stimulus

47
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Summation

A

Increased frequency of stimulus producing end twitch before 1st can relax

48
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Tetanus

A

Sustained Maximal contraction

49
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Increased Ap frequency increases contraction strength

True or false

A

True

50
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Graded contractions

A

Generating small to large forces for light vs small loads

51
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How are graded contractions created?

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  1. Increase action potentials frequency
  2. Recruit more motor units
  3. Optimize muscle length
52
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Motor units (mu)

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1 motor neuron + all muscle fibers innervated

53
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Large vs small motor units

A

Large = gross motor skills
➡️ less precise (back)

Small = fine motor skills ➡️more precise (fingertips)

54
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Less cross bridges = less force

True or false

A

True

55
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Sustained contractions

A

Asynchronous activation of motor units
➡️ motor units take turns

56
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What are the three muscle fiber types?

A
  1. Fast glycolytic
  2. Fast oxidative glycolytic
  3. Slow oxidative
57
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How fast a muscle cell contracts/ twitches depends on….

A
  • rates of cross bridge formation
  • ATPase isoenzymes on myosin head
58
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Slow oxidative

A

Aerobic respiration ( need oxygen)
- dense capillaries, lots of myoglobin, numerous mitochondria

Ex) postural muscles

59
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Fast glycolytic

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Anaerobic respiration (lacks oxygen)

  • fewer capillaries, less myoglobin, fewer mitochondria, large glycogen stores

1 glucose ➡️2 atp

Ex) sprinting muscles (fatigue quickly)

60
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Fast oxidative glycolytic

A

Aerobic/ anaerobic

  • metabolically intermediate to slow oxidative and fast glycolytic

1 glucose➡️ 36 atp

Ex) endurance muscles

61
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What fibers have more mitochondria

A

Slow oxidative

62
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atp functions in muscle contraction cause….

A
  1. Bind to myosin releasing from actin ( relaxation)
  2. Phosphorylation of myosin = charged myosin head ( contraction)
  3. Primary active transport = ca2+ into sarcoplasmic reticulum ( relaxation)
63
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What is used in the first 8 seconds of exercise?

A

Creatine phosphate

64
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After two minutes of experience what is used?

A

Glycolysis

65
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What type of exercise promotes weight loss?

A

Mild exercise

66
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Golgi tendon organ

A

Senses muscle tension/ contraction

67
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What does the golgi tendon organ protect us from

A

Prevents dangerous tension on tendon
- muscle tears / avulsion fracture

68
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Muscle spindle

A

Senses muscle length/ stretch

69
Q

The sensor for knee jerk reflex is

A

Muscle spindle organ

70
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What does the muscle spindle organ protect us from doing

A

Prevents muscle tears

71
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Why during the first two minutes of exercise we are unable to generate atp aerobically?

A

It takes some time for it to increase its spread for the increased demand of atp

72
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Where is the muscle spindle located?

A

The belly of muscles

73
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What fuels are stored in the body

A

Carbohydrates and fats

74
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What form are fuels STORED in the body?

A

Fats = triglycerides

Carbohydrates = glucose 

75
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What provides proper control of muscle function

A

A Somatic motor neuron & 2 sensors

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