L4 - Muscle Flashcards
Built-in heart rhythm
Autorhythmicity - regulated through a system of pacemakers
Muscle tissue composition
Elongated cells: muscle cells/muscle fibres/myocytes
Muscle tissue mechanism
Use energy from hydrolysis of ATP to generate force
ATP
Adenosine triphosphate
Muscle tissue function
- produce body movements
- maintain posture (stabilising body positions)
- generate heat
- protection
- storing/moving substances within body (peristalsis - smooth muscles, pump blood - cardiac muscles)
Types of muscle tissue
Skeletal, cardiac, smooth
Skleteal muscle features
~650 named skeletal muscles in body
Skeletal muscle control
voluntary (contraction is under conscious control but doesn’t always require conscious control - e.g posture)
Skeletal muscle location
Attached to bones by tendons
Skeletal muscle function
motion, posture, heat, protection
Skeletal muscle examples
Stapedius, sartorius
Stapedius features
- 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
Bell’s Palsy
paralysis of nerve causes changes in facial appearance and hyperacusis (extra loud sound perception)
Sartorius features
- 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
Skeletal muscle structure
- 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
Connective tissue in muscle
Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium, tendons
Epimysium location
surrounds anatomical muscle (very outer layer - fibrous fascia)
Epimysium composition
dense irregular connective tissue
Epimysium function
stops muscles from sticking to other muscle
Perimysium location
around fascicles
Fasicles
a bundle of cells grouped together which can move as individual units
Perimysium composition
dense irregular connective tissue
Endomysium location
- around muscle fibres/cell
- sits outside the sarcolemma
Endomysium composition
Areolar connective tissue - mostly reticular fibres
Endomysium function
- 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
Tendons and aponeuroses formation
The three connective tissue layers (epimysium, perimysium, endomysium) extend beyond to form tendons (rope like) and aponeuroses (broad, flat sheet)
Muscle cell structural components
Sarcolemma, sarcoplasm, transverse (T) tubules
Sarcolemma
Actual cell plasma membrane
Sarcoplasm
Cell cytoplasm
Sarcoplasm composition
glycogen and myoglobin (red protein that binds oxygen molecules and releases them when needed)
Transverse (T) tubules
- 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)