muscular Flashcards
responsible for movement of the arms, legs, heart, and other parts of the body; maintenance of posture; respiration; production of body heat; communication; constriction of organs and vessels; and heartbeat.
mucles
responsible for most body movements
skeletal muscle
found in the walls of hollow organs and tubes and moves substances through them
smooth muscle
in the heart and pumps blood.
cardiac muscle
shortens forcefully
contractility
responds to stimuli
excitability
can be stretched and still contract
extensibility
recoils to resting length
elasticity
shortens forcefully but lengthens passively
muscle tissue
associated with connective tissue, blood vessels, and nerves.
skeletal muscle fibers
bundles of muscle fibers, are covered by the connective tissue layer called the perimysium.
muscle fascicles
The entire muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue layer
epimysium
extend together with arteries and veins through the connective tissue of skeletal muscles.
motor neurons
axons of motor neurons branch, and each branch projects to a muscle fiber to form a neuromuscular junction.
perimysium
axons of motor neurons branch, and each branch projects to a muscle fiber to form a neuromuscular junction.
perimysium
single cell consisting of a plasma membrane (sarcolemma), cytoplasm (sarcoplasm), several nuclei, and myofibrils.
muscle fiber
what components of a muscle fiber include the sarcolemma, the T tubules, and the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
electrical components
what components of a muscle fiber include the myofibrils and the myofilaments.
mechanical component
composed of two major protein fibers: actin and myosin.
myofibrils
consist of actin (composed of G actin monomers), tropomyosin, and troponin.
actin myofilaments
consisting of heads and a rodlike portion, constitute myosin myofilaments.
myosin molecules
forms when the myosin binds to the actin.
cross bridge
organized to form sarcomeres.
actin and myosin
bound by Z disks that hold actin myofilaments.
sarcomeres
the location where a motor neuron is in close proximity to the muscle fiber.
neuromuscular junction
contains synaptic vesicles that house the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine.
motor neuron axon terminal
-are polarized, which means that a charge difference, called the resting membrane potential
-becomes polarized because the tendency for K+ to diffuse out of the cell is resisted by the negative charges of ions and molecules inside the cell.
plasma membrane
-responsible for membrane permeability and the resting membrane potential.
-responsible for producing action potentials.
ion channels
The charge difference across the plasma membrane of cells
resting membrane potential
-results from an increase in the permeability of the plasma membrane to Na+.
-the action potential results when many Na+ channels open in an all-or-none fashion.
depolarization
the action potential occurs when the Nat channels close and the K+ channels open briefly.
repolarization
separates the presynaptic terminal of the axon from the motor end-plate of the muscle fiber.
synaptic cleft
released from the presynaptic terminal binds to receptors of the motor end-plate, thereby changing membrane permeability and producing an action potential.
acetylcholine
splits acetylcholine into acetic acid and choline.
acetylcholinesterase
reabsorbed into the presynaptic terminal to re-form acetylcholine.
choline
a T tubule and two terminal cisternae (an enlarged area of sarcoplasmic reticulum).
triad
move into the T tubule system, causing Ca* channels to open and release Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
action potentials
diffuse from the sarcoplasmic reticulum to the myofilaments and bind to troponin, causing tropomyosin to move and expose active sites on actin to myosin.
calcium ions
occurs when myosin heads bind to active sites on actin, myosin changes shape, and actin is pulled past the myosin.
contraction
occurs when calcium is taken up by the sarcoplasmic reticulum, ATP binds to myosin, and tropomyosin moves back so that active sites on actin are no longer exposed to myosin.
relaxation