Muscles + Cardiovascular System Flashcards
In skeletal muscle, What does epimysium surround?
Muscles
What are extrinsic muscles?
Muscles that are attached to bone/cartilage
In skeletal muscle, What is a fascicle?
A group of muscle fibres
What are the 3 muscle types?
Skeletal, cardiac and smooth
In skeletal muscle, What is the endomysium made of?
Connective tissue
In skeletal muscle, What does the endomysium surround?
Muscle fibres
What are intrinsic muscles?
Muscles that aren’t attached to bone or cartilage, instead attached to something else (ie other muscles)
In skeletal muscle, What surrounds a fascicle?
Perimysium
In skeletal muscle, what is a muscle fibre surrounded by?
Endomysium
In skeletal muscle, What do you call a group of muscle fibres?
Fascicle
In skeletal muscle, What is perimysium?
Connective tissue carrying nerves and blood
What are the 3 types of skeletal muscle? (What are their sizes?)
Red (narrow), intermediate and white (wide)
What are the bands within skeletal muscle?
M band
H band
A band
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Z band
I band
In skeletal muscle, What does perimysium surround?
Fascicles
In skeletal muscle, What do many fascicles make up?
Muscle
What does calcium bind to in skeletal muscles?
Troponin
In skeletal muscle, What surrounds a muscle?
Epimysium
What are the thick filaments in skeletal muscle called?
Myosin
What are the thin filaments in skeletal muscle called?
Actin
What are the cells like that make up skeletal muscle fibres?
Multinucleated peripheral cells
What is atrophy?
The wasting of muscles, when destruction>replacement
What is hypertrophy?
The growth of muscles, destruction
What are the 3 types of atrophy? Give brief descriptions of the types
Disuse- due to prolonged bedrest/sedentary lifestyle, loss of protein occurs
Muscle- occurs naturally with age (affects temp regulation)
Denervation- when neurones are severed meaning muscles stop working
What happens to the muscle during hypertrophy?
The muscle fibres increase in diameter
Metabolic changes occur: more enzyme activity for glycolysis, More mitochondria, more stored glycogen, more blood flow
What increases in number when you stretch your muscles?
Sarcomeres
What decreases in number when you immobilise a muscle
Sarcomeres
What does having more sarcomeres mean?
Long muscles
What does have few sarcomeres mean?
Reduced muscle length
What system do NPs act to counter?
Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
What does Ca2+ binding in skeletal muscle cause and how?
Ca2+ binds to troponin which causes tropomyosin to move, allowing the myosin filaments to attach to the actin filaments creating cross bridges and causing a contraction
What is the role of ATP in muscle contraction?
ATP binds to myosin head
Hydrolysed to give ADP+Pi
This causes myosin head to form a cross bridge with the actin filament
Power stroke triggered, ADP and Pi are released during the power stroke
Myosin head remains attached to actin filament though
Only released when a new molecule of ATP binds to myosin
It is the hydrolyses of this ATP that would result in another power stroke
When would troponin be released?
If muscle is ischaemic
What could you do to assess the level of ischaemia within a body?
Troponin assay
Where do you find Creatine Kinase (CK)?
In metabolically active tissues
What can CK be used to indicate?
Myocardial infarctions (and size of) General skeletal muscle/brain tissue damage
What two types of muscle types are striated?
skeletal and cardiac