Muscle slide Q's Flashcards
What are the functions of muscle tissue
- Movement
- Stabilization
- Organ volume
- Moving substances through the body
- Heat
- Storage of food
what are the properties of muscle tissue
- Electrical excitability
- Contractility
- Extensibility
- Elasticity
Smooth muscle features
- Spindle
- Single Nuclei
- Not striated
- Involuntary
- E.g. intestine wall
Cardiac muscle features
- Branching
- Single Nuclei
- Visible striations
- Involuntary
- E.g. heart
Skeletal muscle features
- Elongated
- Multiple Nuclei
- Visible striations
- Voluntary
- E.g. skeletal muscle
Muscle composition
- Water = 75%
- Protein = 20%
- Salts and other substances = 5%
Order of the skeletal muscle layers
- Muscle
- Fascicles
- Individual muscle fibres
- Myofibrils
- Actin and myosin (myofilaments)
what covers the fascicles?
Perimysium
what covers the individual muscle fibres
Endomysium and the sarcolemma
What covers the entire muscle
Epimysium
What does the sarcoplasmic reticulum store
Ca2+
Why does the sarcolemma have T Tubules
Allow the muscle action potential to spread to all parts of the muscle quickly.
What is fascia
It is a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue that surrounds muscles and other organs of the body
What are langer’s lines
Skin creases that reflect the fibre orientation of the fascia and muscles that lie below
What is the thin filament structure made up of
Actin, troponin and tropomyosin.