Modle 3 - Support And Movement Flashcards
Three types of muscle types?
Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac
What percentage of body mass does skeletal muscle take up?
40-50%
What are the characteristics of skeletal muscle?
Long and striated with plenty of nuclei
What attaches bone to muscle?
Tendons
Why is a muscle striated in appearance?
It is the arrangement of the sarcomeres
What part of the central nervous system controls skeletal muscle?
The somatic nervous sytem
Where is smooth muscle found?
GI tract, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, urinary bladder, reproductive organs/tracts, skin and eyes
What does a cardiac muscle look like?
Striated, with similar contractile properties to skeletal muscle, but appears to branch (not parallel)
What do muscle fibres interconnect at?
Intercalated disks
Are cardiac muscles uni-nucleate?
yes
How many muscles in human body?
Roughly 320 on either side
Where is the Muscle-Tendon origin and insertion usually?
Origin is proximal, insertion is distal
Four main functions of muscles?
Contractility, excitability, extensibility, elasticity
What is excitability (muscle)
Ability to respond to appropriate stimuli
What is extensibility (muscle)?
Ability to be stretches without damage
What is elasticity (muscle)?
Ability to store some energy, recoil to the resting length
What us contractility (muscle)?
Ability to shorten and thicken, and develop tension
Where are the contractile filaments of a muscle that convert action potentials found?
Within the myofibrils
When a muscle shortens, what happens to the filaments and z line? How about when it lengthens?
The muscle shortens asa result to the filaments overlapping more, pulling the z lines closer. When it lengthens, the filaments overlap less
What anchors myosin to the z line?
Titin
What does Titin contribute to in muscles?
Passive force
Diameter of myosin and actin?
16nm and 8nm respectively
Action of a muscle shortening at the myosin/actin sites is called:?
A power stroke
Four main types of tissues within the body?
Epithelial, muscle, nervous and connective
Most common type of tissue in the body?
Connective
Define tissues
Groups of similar cells and their extracellular products, organised to perform a common function
Do muscle cells have an ECM?
Barely anymore, it is surrounded by connective tissue for the most part, which in turn has more a significant ECM
Order of connective tissue in a muscle cell?
Epimysium, Perimysium, Endomysium
What does epimysium do?
Fibrous tissue that surrounds skeletal muscle
What does perimysium do?
Groups muscle fibres into a fascicle
What does endomysium do?
Surrounds each muscle fibre
What does a motor unit consist of?
1 motor neuron, its motor axon and all of the uscle fibres it innervates
Three types of skeletal muscle fibres?
Type 1: Slow oxidative
Type 2a: Fast oxidative
Type 2b: Fast glycolytic
Myoglobin content of the three skeletal muscle fibres?
Type 1: (high) Red
Type 2a: (high) Red
Type 2b: (low) White
Mitochondria count in skeletal muscle fibres?
Type 1: Many
Type 2a: Many
Type 2b: Few
Rate of fatigue within muscle fibres?
Type 1: Slow
Type 2a: Intermediate
Type 2b: Fast
Major ATP sources in skeletal muscle fibres?
Type 1: Aerobic respiration
Type 2a: Aerobic respiration
Type 2b: Glycolysis
Where are most slow twitch fibres found in concentration?
Frontalis, Peroneus Longus (calf) and Biceps Femoris
What is a hydrostatic skeleton?
Fluid held under pressure (like in worms)
Four basic roles of our skeletal structure?
Support, protection, movement and metabolic functions
What percentage of the body’s calcium and phosphorus does the human body store in its bones?
99% of calcium and 85% of phosphorus
Two segment of adult skeleton?
Axial and Appendicular
What is the axial skeleton in relation to?
Head and trunk region
What is the appendicular skeleton?
In relation to limbs
append - to add something to the end
How many bones in adult skeleton?
206
How many bones in axial skeleton?
80
How many bones in the skull?
22
Name of bone in middle ear?
Ossicle
What s the bone that aids the tongue in movement?
Hyoid
How many bones in appendicular skeleton?
126
Four main anatomical planes?
Sagittal, parasagittal, coronal and transverse
Flexion and extension of the foot at the ankle is referred to as:
Dorsiflexion and plantarflexion
Three types of joints?
Fibrous, cartilaginous and synovial
What are fibrous joints?
Contain fibrous connective tissue and allow very little movement. *ie skull or ankle
What are cartilaginous joints?
Contain cartilage that cushions forces. Allows a little movement. *ie pelvic girdle, intervertebral discs
What are synovial joints?
Only joint that has a space (filled with fluid) that allows for greatest range of movement *ie knee, elbow
What connects bone to bone?
Cartilage and ligaments
Six types of joint movements?
Pivot joint Hinge joint Saddle join Plane joint Condyloid joint Ball-and-socket joint
What joint is found between tarsal bones?
Plane joint
What joint is found between the trapezium carpal bone and 1st metacarpal bone?
Saddle joint
What joint is found in the hip?
Ball and socket
What joint is found in the elbow?
Hinge
What joint is found in the neck (c1 and c2)?
Pivot
What joint is found between the radius and carpal bones of the wrist?
Condyloid joint
Antagonist of masseter/temporalis?
Masseter/temporalis - jaw closer
Giastric - jaw opener
Antagonist of rectus abdominis?
Eractor spinae
Antagonist of tibialis anterior?
Soleus
What do synergist muscles do?
Help perform the same joint motion (as agonist muscles)
Four types of bone?
Long, short, flat and irregular
What type of bones are caprals and tarsals?
Short
What type of bone is the sesamoid bone?
short
What type of bone are ribcages?
flat
What bones produce blood?
Flatand irregular
What is the term for blood production?
Hematopoiesis
What type of bone is the pelvis?
Irregular
Percentage of bone that is collagen?
40%
Percentage of bone that is calcium and salts?
60%
What provides the hardness and rigidity of a bone?
The calcium and alts
What does collagen do to a bone?
Provides toughness and flexibility
Where is calcium and salts found in bone?
Between the collagen fibres
How is collegan fibre in bones in children presented?
They are randomly distributed compared to a mature bone
Four types of bone cells?
Osteoclasts, osteoblasts, osteocytes and osteogenic cells
What are osteoclasts? (Four main points)
Very large cell with many nuclei thought to:
- Improve reabsorption efficiency
- Breakdown one matrix
- Destroy and reabsorb bone
- Respond to mechanical stress
What are dig tunnels line with in bone?
With collagen by the Osteoblasts
What are osteoblasts? (4 points)
Located on the surface of the bone, they:
- Line tunnels with collagen
- Create bone matrix
- Build bone
- Differentiate into osteocytes when trapped in bone
What are osteocytes? (Four things)
Long cytoplasmic extensions that:
- Maintain bone matrix
- Hold bone together
- Mineralise the bone matrix (calcium and salts)
- Supply nutrients into the bone matrix
What are osteogenic cells?
Stem cells that develop into an osteoblast (to form bone) and then an osteocyte (to maintain bone)
What is the ECM composed of in tissues?
Proteins, salts, H2O and dissolved macromolecules
Two types of bone?
Traecular (spongy bone)
Compact (lamellar or cortical bone)
What is trabecular bone?
Greater surface area compared to compact bone
Promotes bone marrow to develop (produces red blood cels and lymphocytes, support the immune system).
Trabeculae form along lines of stess
What is compact bone?
Hard, dense bone
Support the body, stores calcium
Organised structure
How does a bone grow or remodel?
In response to the forces applied upon it
Where are long bones the thickest?
Along the shaft
How does handedness play a role in bone thickness?
Right or left hand that dominates tends to be thicker
Why is the shaft (long part) of the bone the thickest?
Bending stress is the greatest
Which bones are most likely to be at their thickest?
Where heavy, active muscles attach - where they are most likely to buckle
How many ossification centres in a foetus? (11 weeks prior to birth)
800
How many ossification centres in a neonate (new born)?
450
What ratio of skeleton is cartilaginous in neonates?
2/3rds
What percentage of skeleton in an adult is cartilaginous?
10%
What process does long bone develop through?
Endochondral ossification
What precedes bone formation?
Crtlagnoustissue
When can primary ossification centres be found?
8 weeks after fertilisation
When are secondary ossification centres found?
They are present after birth until growth stops
Stages of bone development
Resting cartilage Cartilage proliferation Cartilage maturation Cartilage calcification Ossification
What is the spongy bone?
Trabecular
What forms along lines of stress?
Trabeculae
What are the types of muscle fibre directions?
Circular Convergent Unipennate Bipennate Parallel-non-fusiform Parallel-fusiform Mutlipennate
What is the difference between parallel-fusiform and parallel-non-fusiform?
Parallel-fusiform gets bigger in the middle, whereas the non-fusiform doesn’t
What can circular muscles do?
Close an opening
What are long and short muscles good at?
Long muscles are better at controlling movement over joints that have a large range of motion.
Shorter, wider muscles are better at generating larger forces over a smaller range of motion
What is PCSA?
Physiological cross section area