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L4 - Muscle Flashcards

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Built-in heart rhythm

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Autorhythmicity - regulated through a system of pacemakers

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Muscle tissue composition

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Elongated cells: muscle cells/muscle fibres/myocytes

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Muscle tissue mechanism

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Use energy from hydrolysis of ATP to generate force

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ATP

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Adenosine triphosphate

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Muscle tissue function

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  • produce body movements
  • maintain posture (stabilising body positions)
  • generate heat
  • protection
  • storing/moving substances within body (peristalsis - smooth muscles, pump blood - cardiac muscles)
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Types of muscle tissue

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Skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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Skleteal muscle features

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~650 named skeletal muscles in body

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Skeletal muscle control

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voluntary (contraction is under conscious control but doesn’t always require conscious control - e.g posture)

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Skeletal muscle location

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Attached to bones by tendons

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Skeletal muscle function

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motion, posture, heat, protection

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Skeletal muscle examples

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Stapedius, sartorius

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Stapedius features

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  • smallest at 1.25 mm
  • stabilises smallest human bone (stapes) in the ear
  • changes tension (muscle tightens) to control sensitivity of hearing by altering the amount of sound vibration transmitted through eardrum
  • supplied by a small branch of facial nerve
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Bell’s Palsy

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paralysis of nerve causes changes in facial appearance and hyperacusis (extra loud sound perception)

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Sartorius features

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  • longest at up to 60 cm
  • in the thigh and in charge of twisting to be able to see the bottom of feet
  • hip: flexor, abductor, lateral rotator
  • knee: flexor
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Skeletal muscle structure

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  • Striated (alternating light and dark bands within fibres under microscope)
  • relatively big, long, cylindrical, ordered cells/fibres
  • Multinucleate with many peripheral nuclei pushed to the side
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Connective tissue in muscle

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Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium, tendons

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Epimysium location

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surrounds anatomical muscle (very outer layer - fibrous fascia)

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Epimysium composition

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dense irregular connective tissue

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Epimysium function

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stops muscles from sticking to other muscle

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Perimysium location

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around fascicles

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Fasicles

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a bundle of cells grouped together which can move as individual units

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Perimysium composition

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dense irregular connective tissue

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Endomysium location

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  • around muscle fibres/cell

- sits outside the sarcolemma

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Endomysium composition

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Areolar connective tissue - mostly reticular fibres

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Endomysium function

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  • penetrates interior of each fascicle and separates individual muscle fibres from one another
  • layer for capillaries and nerves (needed due to voluntary control)
  • generally, one artery and one or two veins accompany each nerve that penetrates a skeletal muscle
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Tendons and aponeuroses formation

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The three connective tissue layers (epimysium, perimysium, endomysium) extend beyond to form tendons (rope like) and aponeuroses (broad, flat sheet)

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Muscle cell structural components

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Sarcolemma, sarcoplasm, transverse (T) tubules

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Sarcolemma

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Actual cell plasma membrane

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Sarcoplasm

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Cell cytoplasm

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Sarcoplasm composition

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glycogen and myoglobin (red protein that binds oxygen molecules and releases them when needed)

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Transverse (T) tubules

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  • tiny invaginations of sarcolemma
  • tunnel in from surface towards centre of each muscle fibre
  • filled with interstitial fluid as they are open to the outside of the fibre
  • muscle action potentials travel along sarcolemma and through T tubules (quickly spreading throughout muscle fibre = all parts of muscle excited at same instant)
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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  • fluid-filled system of membranous sacs
  • encircles each myofibril
  • relaxed form: stores calcium ions where release of these ions tiggers muscle contraction
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Myofibrils features

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  • 2µm in diameter
  • the contractile units of muscle fibres
  • highly organised arrangement of myofibrils within cells cause striations
  • more or less fill the sarcoplasm
  • extends the muscle fibre’s entire length
    (- the tubular structure made of sarcomeres)
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Myofibrils composition

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Myofilaments (, proteins)

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Protein types in myofibrils

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Contractile, regulatory, structural

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Contractile protein function

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Generate force during contractions

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Contractile protein examples

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Myosin, actin

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Regulatory proteins function

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Help switch contraction process on and off

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Structural protein function

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  • keep thick and thin filaments in proper alignment
  • give myofibril elasticity and extensibility
  • link myofibrils to sarcolemma and ECM
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Myofilament feature

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do not extend the length of the muscle fibre (arranged in compartments - sacromeres)

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Types of myofilaments

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Thin filament, thick filament

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Thick filament size

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  • twice the thin filaments: 16 nm diam

- 1-2 µm long

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Thick filament composition

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Myosin protein

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Thin filament size

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  • 8 nm diam

- 1-2 µm long

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Thin filament composition

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Mostly actin protein

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Sarcomere features

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  • basic functional unit of myofibril

- coordinated but independent contractions

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Sarcomere components

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A band, I band, H zone, M line, Z discs, Titin filaments, Zone of overlap

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A band

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  • dark (due to thick filaments), middle of sarcomere

- contains all thick filaments (including overlap)

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I band

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  • lighter, less dense area
  • ONLY thin filaments and NO thick filaments (spans between end of one thick filament to another - doesn’t include overlap zone)
  • one Z disc passes through centre of each I band
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H zone

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  • narrow region in centre of each A band

- ONLY thick filaments and NO thin filaments (spans between ends of overlap zones)

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Zone of overlap

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  • where thin and thick filaments overlap (to different degrees depending on state of contraction)
  • 2 thin filaments for every thick filament
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M line

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  • middle of sarcomere/H zone

- contains protein discs that orientate/line up and hold thick filaments together

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Z discs

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  • narrow, plate-shaped regions of dense material
  • passes through centre of I band
  • located between sarcomeres: separates and defines sarcomere units
  • made of actinin proteins that link filaments of adjacent sarcomeres (thin filaments are anchored to Z discs)
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Titin filament

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  • links Z disk to M line

- provides resisting tension on I band (like a molecular spring)

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Cardiac muscle control

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Involuntary

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Cardiac muscle location

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Heart wall

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Cardiac muscle function

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Pumps blood to all parts of body

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Cardiac muscle structure

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  • Striated fibres (like skeletal): sarcomere structure
  • Branched
  • Single central nucleus (occasionally two)
  • Fibres join end-to-end through intercalated discs
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Intercalated discs function

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  • allows coordinated activity by linking different muscles together to result in walls contracting in an ordered way when pumping blood
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Intercalated discs junctions

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Desmosomes, gap junctions

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Desmosomes in intercalated discs

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  • bind intermediate filaments
  • provide adhesion (hold fibres together) in contraction
  • strengthen, structure
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Gap junctions in intercalated discs

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  • communication (electrical signals)

- coordinated, rapid conduction

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Smooth muscle control

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Involuntary

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Smooth muscle location

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  • walls of hollow internal structures
  • structures where diameter size needs to change (intestines - peristalsis, blood vessel walls - constriction, iris of eye, reproductive - uterus. digestive - gallbladder/respiratory - airways to Lungs/urinary - bladder, skin erector pili - Controls direction of hair, stomach)
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Smooth muscle function

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  • motion (constriction of blood vessels, airways, propulsion of foods through gastrointestinal tract, contraction of urinary bladder/gallbladder)
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Smooth muscle structure

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  • non-striated (smooth)
  • short, small, spindle-shaped (about 30-200 µm long, 3-8 µm thickest in middle)
  • single, central nucleus
  • bundles of thin and thick filaments in unordered way
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Smooth muscle shape advantage

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  • conducive to going around circular/hollow organs as they can pack easily together which results in a more efficient contractile process when changing the diameter of the inner lumen (inside space of tubular structures)
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Thin filaments in smooth muscle

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Attach to dense bodies

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Dense bodies

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Major protein actinin

- functionally similar to Z discs as contractile apparatus spans between dense bodies)

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Intermediate filaments in smooth muscles

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Also connect dense bodies

- non-contractile elements (rigid rods)

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Intermediate filament function in smooth muscles

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During contraction, tension is transmitted to the intermediate filaments and the cell widens/twists about these stable rods as it contracts/squishes

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Junctions in smooth muscle

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Gap junctions

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Gap junctions in smooth muscle

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Connect many individual fibres

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Smooth muscle cells with gap junctions

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Powerful contractions due to fibres contracting in unison

E.g gut

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Smooth muscle cells without gap junctions

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Individual contraction like skeletal muscles

E.g iris of eye

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Tendon composition

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Dense regular tissue

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Tendon function

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Attaches to bone

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Tendon example

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Achilles (calcaneal) tendon

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Intercalated discs

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transfer thickenings of plasma membrane unique to cardiac muscle

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