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Muscle Ultratissue Flashcards

1
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Types of muscle

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Skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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Skeletal muscle is…

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Striated muscle which is under voluntary control of the somatic nervous system

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Cardiac muscle is

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Striated muscle found only on the heart

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Smooth muscle is…

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Non-striated muscle which is controlled involuntarily by the autonomic nervous system

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5
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Cell surface membrane of muscle cell

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Sarcolemma

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T-tubules are…

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Invaginations of the sarcolemma which conduct charge when a cell is depolarised

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7
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Sarcoplasmic reticulums are…

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Specialised endoplasmic reticulums which contain large storages of calcium ions

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8
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Hierarchy of muscle organisation

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Muscle fibres -> fascicles -> muscle

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9
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Muscle fibres are surrounded by

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Endomysium

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10
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Muscle Fascicles are surrounded by

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Perimysium

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11
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Muscles are surrounded by

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Epimysium

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12
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Functional unit of muscle

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Sarcomere

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13
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Z line

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Actin filaments are anchored

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14
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M line

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Where myosin filaments are anchored

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15
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I band

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Contains only actin filaments

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16
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A band

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Length of a myosin filament - may contain actin also

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H zone

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Only myosin

18
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Thin filament

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Thick filament

20
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Tropomyosin runs along…

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The actin filament and blocks myosin head binding sites

21
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Troponin binds…

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Tropomyosin to actin

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Troponin I

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Binds to the actin filament

23
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Troponin T

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Binds to Tropomyosin

24
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Troponin C

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Binds to calcium ions

25
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1st stage of muscular contraction

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Depolarisation arrives at neuromuscular junction. Conducted by T tubules - causes massive influx of calcium ions from sarcoplasmic reticulum

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2nd stage of muscle contraction

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Calcium binds to Troponin C - causes Tropomyosin to move away from actin filament myosin head binding sites

27
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3rd stage of muscular contraction

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Myosin heads bind to actin filaments. Power strokes cause the myosin heads to pivot in a rowing motion. This slides the actin filaments towards the M line

28
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4th stage of muscular contraction

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ATP binds to myosin heads, causing them to unbind from actin

29
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What shortens during muscle contraction?

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Distance between Z lines, I band, H zone and length of the sarcomere

30
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What stays the same during muscle contraction

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A band and length of muscle filament

31
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is when…

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Dystrophin not produced - muscle fibres tear on contraction - muscle weakness

32
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Sufferers of duchenne muscule dystrophy are usually…

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In a wheelchair by age 12

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