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Types of muscle tissue

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Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth

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Highly specialized cells for the func of contraction

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Muscle cells

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Muscles contract for

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Movt
Opposes gravity or forces
Propulsion of contents of hollow organs

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Skeletal Muscle cells are innervated by

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Somatic motor neuron

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Smooth and cardiac muscles get signals to contract from

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Autonomic nervous system

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Responsible for movt of internal organs

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Smooth muscle

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Can contract spontaneously

Can regulate itself

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Cardiac muscle

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Smooth muscles..

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Smooth mucles are

  1. spindle shaped
  2. homogenous with no striations
  3. single and centrally placed nucleus
  4. involuntary
  5. Innervated by ANS
  6. Visceral smooth muscle
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Describe Cardiac muscle

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Latticework appearance
Striated
Myofibrils interdigitate during contraction
Presence of intercalated disks
Have SYNCTIAL INTERCONNECTIONS bet cells
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Contain myofilaments - actin and myosin

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Myofibril

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Contractile organelle. Most abundant part of the muscle tissue. Responsible for actual contraction

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Myofibril

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Describe skeletal muscle

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Striated
Voluntary
Multinucleated

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It is the intracellular fluid between myofibrils

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Sarcoplasm

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Cell membrane of muscles

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Sarcolemma

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Cytoplasm of muscles

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Sarcoplasm

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15
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Er of muscles

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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What are t tubules or transverse tubules

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Located beside sarcoplasmic reticulum
Impt in distributing command to contract in skeletal fibers
Aids in allowing action potential at the cell surface to move rapidly

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17
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Made up of grps of muscle fiber

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Muscle bundle

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18
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Consists of myofilaments arranged in sarcomere

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Myofibrils

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19
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Smallest func unit of muscle fibril

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Sarcomere

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20
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Actin molecules

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Pear shaped arranged in strands of beads

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Myosin molecules

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Has a rod shaped tail and globular head

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Myofibrils are made up of _ sarcomere

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10000 sarcomere

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Myosin

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Thick filaments
A bands
Found at center

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Actin

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Thin filaments
I bands
Found at periphery

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Center of thin filaments

Anchors thin filaments

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Area of A bands w/o an actin filament

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Line anchoring center of A band

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1 sarcomere =

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Z line to z line

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Sliding filament theory

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When a sarcomere contracts, thin filaments are sliding along the center of the sarcomere alongside the thick filaments, decreasing the H ZONE

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Types of muscle contraction

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Simple twitch
Isometric
Isotonic

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Stages of a twitch

Diff phases of contraction

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Latent phase
Contraction phase
Relaxation phase

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Diff forms of stimulus

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Thermal
Mechanical
Electrical
Chemical

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Diff degress of stimulus

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Sub threshold
Threshold
Maximal
Supramaximal

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2 types of muscle fibers

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Slow fibers

Fast fibers

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Characteristics of muscle contraction

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  1. All or none principle
  2. Exhibits gradation
  3. Shows asynchronous contraction
  4. Exhibits muscle tone
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Factors in exhibiting gradation

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Strength
Stretch
Load
Treppe
Rate of frequency of stimulation
37
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2 types of tetanus

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Incomplete

Complete

38
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Difference of isometric and isotonic

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Isometric - tension rises but the length of muscle contraction is CONSTANT. Maintains position of body
Isotonic - tension builds until it extend the amount of resistance. Muscle shortens. Movt of arms hands fingers

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Any agent act or influence producing functional or trophic reactions in a receptor or irritable tissue

40
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Shows a period of contraction followed by a period of relaxation

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Simple twitch

41
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Describe the latent phase

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Latent - begins at stimulation. Lasts about 10ms. Action potential is still sweeping across the membrane. No tension.

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Describe contraction phase

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Tension rises to a peak
Cross bridging occurs
40 ms

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Relaxation phase

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Muscle tension returns to resting levels
Detachment of cross bridges
50ms

44
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Degree that does not produce a response

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Sub threshold

45
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Strength of stimulus that causes excitation

46
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More muscle fibers contracting at the same time

47
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All muscles contracting at the same time until it is close to fatigue

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Supramaximal

48
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Describe slow fibers

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Red muscle
High myoglobin content
100ms twitch duration
Long muscles of the back

49
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Describe fast fibers

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Pale or white muscles
Low myoglobin content
Twitch duration 7ms
Muscles that produce fine movt
Less resistance to fatigue
Muscles in hand, extracellular muscle
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Response of muscle fiber to the stimulus is maximal

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All or none principle

51
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^ strength or intensity of stimulus

52
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^ load

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⬇️ height

53
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What is TREPPE

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Staircase effect

Repeated stimulation after the resting phase and the peak tension will rise in stages

54
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Inc speed of stimulation causes

55
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Fusion of contraction

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Diff incomplete and complete

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Incomplete- rate increases further. Tension production rises to a peak and periods of relaxation will be very brief
Complete- freq of s. Is so high that the relaxation phase is completely eliminated

57
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Inability of the motor unit to respond to a workload

No excitation will be produced

58
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While one motor unit is contracting the other is resting

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Shows asynchronous contraction

59
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Firmness of the muscle

Flaccid denervated muscle (no nerve, no firmness)

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Exhibits muscle tone

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