Muscle Histology Flashcards
function of muscle
- motion and stability
- internal organ function
- maintains body temperature
motion and stability muscle function
- moves skeleton
- maintains posture
internal organ muscle function
- digestive (peristalsis)
- cardiac (heartbeat)
maintaining body temperature function
-muscle contraction (normal body temperature)
characteristics of muscle
- irritability
- contractility
- extensibility
- elasticity
irritability muscle characteristic
-receive and respond to stimulus from a neuron
contractility muscle characteristic
-respond by contracting (shortening)
extensibility muscle characteristic
-following contraction
define contraction
-a muscle will extend to its original length
elasticity muscle characteristic
-muscle will assume its desired shape after stretching
structure of muscle tissue
- composed of fibers
- fibers contain “contractile proteins”
muscle tissue fiber composition
-long, thing cells of muscle tissue
muscle tissue contractile proteins
- actin and myosin
- cells can shorten and produce movement
classifications of muscle
- skeletal
- smooth
- cardiac
skeletal muscle classification
- long multinucleated and striated
- attached to skeleton
- voluntary (under conscious control)
smooth muscle classification
- composed of long cells containing one nucleus
- found in GI tract and blood vessel walls
- involuntary (not under conscious control)
cardiac muscle classification
- composed of uni-nucleated branching cells; end-to-end
- found only in heart
- involuntary
skeletal muscle components
- associated connective tissue
- microscopic structure
- muscle contraction
skeletal muscle associated CT components
- attachments
- coverings
skeletal muscle attachments components
- tendons
- aponeurosis
skeletal muscle tendon attachments
- dense regular connective tissue
- muscle to bone
skeletal muscle aponeurosis
- dense regular connective tissue
- thin, tendinous sheet
skeletal muscle coverings components
- endomysium
- perimysium
- epimysium
- fascia
skeletal muscle covering composition
- organization of muscle
- tubes within tubes within tubes
define fascicle
-made of muscle cells (fibers)
skeletal muscle endomysium covering
-loose CT covering individual muscle fibers (muscle cells)
skeletal muscle perimysium covering
-surrounds bundles of muscle fibers (fascicles)
skeletal muscle epimysium covering
-covers entire muscle belly
skeletal muscle fascia covering
-CT which binds several muscle groups together
define a muscle fiber
-a single skeletal muscle cell
skeletal muscle microscopic characteristics
- multinucleated
- contain numerous specialized cellular organelles
skeletal muscle microscopic structure components
- sarcoplasm
- sarcolemma
- t-tubule
- sarcoplasmic reticulum
- mitochondria
- myofibril
- myofilament
- myoglobin
- sarcomere
skeletal muscle sarcoplasm
-cytoplasm within muscle cells
skeletal muscle sarcolemma
- plasmalemma (cell membrane)
- just deep to endomysium
skeletal muscle t-tubule
- tube-like extension of sarcolemma
- transmits nerve impulse to sarcoplasmic reticulum
skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum
- basically smooth ER of muscle
- stores a large amounts of calcium
- when releases calcium triggers contraction