Muscle Tissue Flashcards
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General Feature of Muscle
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- Basic Tissue Type (most abundant)
- Contractible
Highly vascularized - ## Derived from embryonic mesoderm
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Skeletal Muscle
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- connected to bones - movement of extremities, etc.
- under voluntary control
- Striated
- Multi - nucleated- located in the periphery (almost outside of the cell)
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Development of Skeletal Muscle
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- Derived from mesoderm
- Embryonic mesoderm cells-> myoblasts->multinucleatd myotuble
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Satellite Cells
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- has a role in the regeneration of cells
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Regeneration of Skeletal Muscle
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- Damage occurs
- initially cleaned by macrophages
- Satellite Cells- fill in the gap and form a line which will regenerate the skeletal muscle
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Plasticity of Skeletal Muscle
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- able to change in size (volume) but not number
- Atrophy - decrease in the diameter of indiv muscle fibers
- Hypertrophy- increase in diameter
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Connective Tissue of Skeletal Muscle
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- Tightly packed similar to axons
- CT - collagen fibers
- Epimysium- packs the entire thing
- Perimysium- packs of multiple fibers
- Endomysium- Wraps individual Fibers
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Actin and Myosin
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- directy involved with contraction
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Dystrophin
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- membrane portein
- Establishes a contact inside the cell with the actin component of cytoskeleton
- Connected with elements on the outside
- cross links actin with transmembrane glycoproteins
- creates a complex
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Titins
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- Proteins - form part of sacromere structure
- Resemble springs- when sarcomere contracts, you need some sort of force to bring it back to original structure
- on both sides of Z line
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T tubules
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0 transverse invaginations of sacrolemma
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Terminal Cisternae
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- Sacroplasmic reticulum
- surrounds microfibrils
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Triad
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- At junction of I and A band
- T tubule in the middle from saroleema
- 2 cisternae on each side from sarcoplasmic reticulum
- Plays a role in transmission of Ca that is released at the synapse
- Ca triggers the movement of muscle
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Sacromere
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- I band has the Z line in it (strictly Actin- very organized in circles of 6 filaments)
- A band containing Actin and myosin
- H band has the M line which anchors myosin ( strictly Myosin
- Regions with both myosin and actin- every myosin filament is surrounded by actin
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Tropomyosin
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- Actin binding protein
- More of a filamentous protein
- able to bind to actin at different spots
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Troponin
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- Actin Binding protein
- Globular protein
- 3 subunits
1) TnT- specialized in binding tropomyosin
2) TnC- specialized in binding Ca
3) TnI- Inhibits the actin myosin interactions
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Myofilaments Control of Muscle Contraction
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- Ca comes in due to action potential - from sarcoplasmic reticulum
- Conformational change in troponin- binding site for myosin which was covered by tropomyosin
- myosin is now able to interact with actin
- ATPase activity- cleaves ATP to ADP (hydrolysis)
- When this happens myosin is able to interact with actin filaments
- Need Ca to cleave ATP and have a muscle contraction
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Innervation by Motor Unit
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- Single muscle fiber is innervated by only one motor neuron but one neuron may innervate more than one fiber
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The motor end plate
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- Presynaptic section has vesicles
- formation of junctional fold- number of T tubules
- Release occurs
- Neurotransmitter - acetylcholine - cholinergic neurons
- Folds need to have proper receptor
- Cholinesterase - if this wasn’t there, there would be constant contractions- cleaves any excess acetylcholine
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Propioceptors
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- Muscle spindle- specialized nerve ending
- Golgi Tendon Organ- formed capsule of nerve tissue
- Contains Afferent neurons held in place by network of collagen fibers
- Sends signals by movement of tendons
- Intrafusal Fibers- internal fibers
- Extrafusal Fibers- fibers not in the spindle
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Nuclear Chain Fiber
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- Chain of nuclei in the middle of the fiber
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Nuclear Bag Fiber
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- all the nuclei are in a central bag
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Red Fibers
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- Type I slow twitch
- Contain a large amount of myoglobin
- Contain many mitochondria
- Oxidative respiration
- Contract slow but continue for a long time
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White Fibers
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- Type II, fast twitch
- little myoglobin
- Glycolytic respoiration
- Abundant glycogen
- Contract quick but fatigue easy
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Cardiac Muscle
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- located in the heart
- involuntary control
- Striated
- Mono nucleated
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Structure of Cardiac Muscle Fibers
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- Fibers are different - shorter and connected via intercalated discs
- One fiber can branch
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Intercalated Discs
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- At the interdigitations - where the two cells come together- there is irregularity
- Cohesion maintained primarily by gap juncitons
- Fascia (Zonula Adherins) and Macula adherens (desomosmes) found in the vertical portions
- Gap junctions found in the horizontal portions
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Conducting Pathway of the heart
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- SA node–> AV node–> AV bundle (connects the atria to the ventricles)–> bundle branches–> purkinje fibers
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Medulla Oblongata
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- Has a cardio acceleratory and cardio inhibitor center
- Depending on where it is stimulated, it can accelerate or inhibit the beating of the heart
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Natriuretic Peptides
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- Atrial Natriuetic peptide (ANP)
- Ventricular Natriuretic Peptide (BNP)
- Maintain Blood pressure
- Promote elimination of water and Na through urination
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Smooth Muscle
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- In hollow organs
- Involuntary control
- non striated
- Mono nucleated
- Has a spindle shape characteristic
- Nucleus is usually in the center
- Most organelles are either on one end or the other
- Contains Dense bodies
- No T tubules
- Contains caveolae
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Dense Bodies
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- Has to do with the way these cells contract- different from other mucles
- Actinin- anchoring sites for actin filaments and intermediate filaments
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Multi Unit Smooth Muscle
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- Loosely packed
- more richly innervated for rapid contractions
- need more axons
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Visceral Smooth Muscle
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- Found in most hollow organs
- poorly innervated with slow movement
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Varicosities
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- Regions filled with vesicles of neurotransmitter
- interact with the smooth muscle at these
