Muscle Flashcards
What do skeletal muscle differentiate from
Mesenchymal cells
Skeletal muscle development
- Myoblasts align and fuse to make multinucleated myotubes
- Myotubes synthesize myofilaments; cross-straitions gradually begin to appear
- Myotubes continue to differentiate into myofibrils
Endomysium
- Thin Reticular fibers
- Supplies fascicles with nerves and capillaries
Perimysium
CT (collagen) layer surrounding fascicles
Septa
- Between fascicles
- Carry nerves, blood vessels and lymphatics
Epimysium
-Dense irregular CT
Myotendinous Junction
- Between muscle and tendon
- Tendon is dense collagen
Myofilaments
Actin and myosin
-Arraged into sarcomeres
A-bands
Ansiotropic/birefringent in polarized LM
-Myosin
I bands
Isotropic
-Actin
Thin filaments contain
F-Actin and G-actin, tropomyosin, and troponin
Sarcoplasmic reticulum has high amount of which organelle
Mitochondria
Muscle Contraction
- Nerve impulse triggers Ach release
- Ach binds nicotinic receptors in motor end plate
- Impulse travels down sarcolemma and t-tubule
- Ca release from SR
- Ca binds troponin, moves trypomysin out the way
Muscle contraction at myosin head
-Attach, powerstroke, detatch, return
Myasthenia Gravis
- Autoimmune disorder
- circulating antibodies bind to Ach receptors, interfering with EPP
- Leads to skeletal muscle weakness
- Extraocular eye muscles are easily affected, causing diplopia (double vision) early sign