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Muscular Flashcards

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Muscular system functions

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  • Produce Movement
  • Maintain Posture and body position
  • Regulating organ volume
  • Moving substances in the body
  • Heat production
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Types of muscle

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  • Skeletal
  • Cardiac
  • Smooth
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Skeletal

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Attached to bone or skin

• Single, very long, cylindrical, multinucleate cells with obvious striations

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Cardiac

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Walls of the heart

• Branching chains of cells, uni- or binucleate, striations

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Smooth

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Unitary muscle in walls of hollow visceral organs

• Single, fusiform, uninucleate, no striations

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Characteristics of muscle

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1) Excitability (Irritability)
2) Contractility
3) Extensibility
4) Elasticity

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Excitability

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Ability to receive and respond to stimuli

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Contractility

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Ability to contract when stimulated

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Extensibility

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Ability to be stretched or extended

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Elasticity

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Ability to recoil to resting length

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Origin

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One end of the muscle is attached to a structure (usually bone) that remains stationary

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Insertion

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The opposite end of the muscle that is moved by the contraction

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Tendon

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Attach muscle to bone

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Ligament

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Attach bone to bone

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Gaster/belly

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The fleshy/meaty portion of the muscle that contracts

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Antagonistic pairs

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Skeletal muscles are arranged in opposing paird

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Agonist

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Contracts to cause an action

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Antagonist

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Stretches & yeilds to the action of the agonist

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Synergist

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Contract to stabilise intermediate joints

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Fixator

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Stabilise the origin of the agonist

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Sarcolemma

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Plasma membrane of a muscle cell

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Sarcomere

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Smallest contractile unit of a muscle fibre, repeating units of actin and myosin

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Fascicle

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A bundle of muscle fibres

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Muscle fibre

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Long, cylindrical cell with multiple nuclei just beneath the sarcolemma

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Myofibril

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Rod-like organelles with contractile proteins which make a muscle fibre

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Transverse tubules (T-tubles)

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Tiny invaginations of the sarcolemma that tunnel in from the surface toward the centre of each muscle fibre, carries action potential to myofibrils

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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Interconnecting tubules surrounding each myofibril which stores and release calcium when muscle fibre is stimulated

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Sheaths of skeletal muscle from external to internal

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1) Epimysium - surrounds the entire muscle
2) Perimysium - surrounds the bundles of fibres (fascicle)
3) Endomysium - surrounds individual muscle fibres

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Crossbridges

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Binding of myosin “heads” to actin

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Sliding filament theory of muscle contraction

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Crossbridges forming and pulling actin towards the centre of the sarcomere

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Myosin

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Thick filament with heads attached that have actin binding sites

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Actin

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Actin have sites for myosin to attach, that are blocked by tropomyosin

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Tropomyosin

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Blocks binding sites on actin so that myosin heads cannot form a crossbridge

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Troponin

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Locks tropomyosin in place

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Crossbridge formation

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Calcium released attaches to troponin, which releases its lock on tropomyosin. This opens the active sites of actin, allowing ATP to be used to form a crossbridge

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Huxley sliding filament theory

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Actin and myosin slide past each other during muscle contraction

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Ratchet mechanism

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Cross bridges are formed and broken several times to propel the actin filament towards the centre of the sarcomere

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Muscle fibre contraction steps

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1) Nerve stimulation
2) Action potential, an electrical current, must be generated in sarcolemma
3) Action potential must be propagated along sarcolemma
4) Intracellular Ca2+ levels must rise briefly

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Somatic motor neurons

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The nerve cells that stimulate a muscle to contract

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Nerve impulse to the neuromuscular junction (synapse)

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1) Action potential arrives at axon terminal
2) Voltage-gated calcium channels open and calcium enters the axon terminal
3) Synaptic vesicles then release their contents (acetylcholine) by exocytosis
4) Acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter diffuses across they synaptic cleft and binds to receptors in the sarcolemma

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Nerve impulse

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Motor neuron stimulate motor units which stimulate muscle fibre

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In crossbridges calcium is the

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Potential propagation

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  • Once the muscle fibre is stimulated, an action potential is re-generated and is conducted along the sarcolemma and down the T-tubules to reach all of the myofibrils
  • From the T-tubule, the impulse is transferred to the SR
  • Causes calcium to ‘flood’ out of the SR
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Excitation-contraction coupling steps

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1) Action potential travels down the T-tubules which releases calcium
2) This triggers contraction by forming corssbridges

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Muscle relaxation

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Nerve impulse stops

1) Calcium channels close
2) ATP actively transports calcium back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum
3) Absence of calcium cause tropomyosin to clock myosin bind sites on actin

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ATP regenerated through

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  • Direct phosphorylation by Creatine phospate (CP)
  • Anaerobic respiration
  • Aerobic respiration
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Direct phosphorylation by Creatine phospate (CP)

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Take phosphate from creatine phosphate, changing ADP to ATP

1 ATP per creatine phosphate

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Anaerobic respiration

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Breakdown of glucose in two stages;
1) Glycolysis
2) Lactic acid formation
No oxygen required, 2 ATP per glucose

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Aerobic respiration

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Breakdown of glucose in three stages; 
1) Glycolysis,
2) Krebs Cycle
3) Oxidative phosphorylation
Requires oxygen, 36 ATP per glucose

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