MUSCULAR SYSTEM 1 Flashcards
primary function of the muscle in general; makes it different from other tissues
CONTRACTION / SHORTENING
Skeletal muscle is responsible walking, running, swimming, jumping
Locomotion and body movements
Skeletal muscle functions so that we can maintain erect or seated despite the downward pull of gravity.
Body posture
Structures that help stabilize joints
Tendons
The metabolism that occurs in the large mass of muscle tissue of the body produces ________ as a by-product of muscle activity
Heat production
Used to produce muscle contraction, energy escapes as heat.
ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
Skeletal muscles are involved in speaking, writing, typing, gesturing, and facial expression
Communication
Muscles of the thorax are responsible for
the movements necessary for __________
Respiration
Cardiac muscle contractions cause the heart to _______, sending all blood to all parts of the body.
Beat
This action helps move and mix food and water in the digestive tract, move secretions from organs and regulate blood flow through vessels
Constriction of Organs and vessels
Contain less actin and myosin than skeletal muscle cells
Smooth Muscles
Myofilaments are not organized into sarcomeres, non-striated
Smooth Muscles
Contract more slowly than do skeletal muscles
Smooth Muscles
Fluctuates from slow depolarization to repolarization phases
RMP (Resting membrane Potential)
Periodically and spontaneously generate action potentials that cause the smooth muscles to contract
Autorhythmicity
Contraction is influenced by __________ and happens slowly, hence, they do not develop an _________
hormones / oxygen deficit
________ in smooth muscles allow action potentials to spread to all cells in a tissue
Gap junctions
Long striated and branching
Cardiac Muscles
The actin and myosin filaments are organized into sarcomeres, but the distribution of myofilaments are not as uniform as in skeletal muscle
Cardiac Muscles
Cardiac muscles are also ___________, they contract at a level that can be sustained by aerobic respiration and consequently does not fatigue
Autorhythmic
Cardiac muscles are connected by structures that include __________ (mechanical links that bind cells together) and gap junctions called __________ allowing them to function as a single unit
desmosomes / intercalated disks
Contractions are influenced by hormones such as ___________
Epinephrine
Both smooth and cardiac muscles contain
mostly ____________ per cell
one nucleus
Is the bulk of the body’s muscle because it is attached to the skeleton
Skeletal muscle
Skeletal – ___
Smooth and cardiac muscle - ____
40% / 10%
Study of muscles
Myology
The ability to shorten forcibly or with force, when adequate stimulus is received
Contractility
The ability to respond to a stimulus through nerve cells (conscious control - skeletal muscles)
Excitability / Irritability
The ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched
Elasticity
The capacity to be stretched and after a contraction, they can be stretched to their normal resting length and beyond to a limited degree after a contraction
Extensibility
Each skeletal muscle is separated from adjacent muscles, held in portion and surrounded by layers of dense (fibrous) connective tissue called _______
FASCIA
Projects a cordlike structure at the end of its muscle fibers which attaches the muscle to bone called _______
TENDONS
Sheet of fibrous connective tissue or an expanded tendon, serving as the origin or insertion of the flat muscle.
APONEUROSIS
Network of fascia that surrounds and penetrates the muscles
Deep Fascia
Portion of fascia that lies beneath the skin
Subcutaneous Fascia
Fascia that forms the layer of serous membrane covering the visceral organ and lining the body cavities where these organs are located
Subserous Fascia
Each skeletal muscle is also surrounded by a tougher tissue that lies beneath the fascia
EPIMYSIUM
closely surrounds several fascicles and blends into tendons and aponeurosis
EPIMYSIUM
Layer of epimysium which extends inward separates each fasciculus
PERIMYSIUM
Layer perimysium which extends inward and separates each muscle fibers
ENDOMYSIUM
Outermost layer, encircling the whole muscle
Epimysium
Surrounds groups of 10-100 or more individual muscle fibers separating them into bundles called fascicles/fasciculi
Perimysium
Perimysium surrounds groups of 10-100 or more individual muscle fibers separating them into bundles called _________
fascicles/fasciculi
Separates individual muscle fibers from one another
Endomysium
Consists of bundles of muscle fibers
FASCICLE
Fairly large, long, cigar shaped cells ranging from 10-100 micrometer in diameter and up to 30cm in length, that are multinucleated
MUSCLE FIBERS
Composed of hundreds to thousands of cells called muscle fibers with elongated shapes
MUSCLE
With glycogen and myoglobin, cytoplasm of a muscle fiber
SARCOPLASM
Oxygen binding, iron containing protein present in the sarcoplasm of muscle fibers, contributes to the red color of muscle
MYOGLOBIN
Releases oxygen when mitochondria need it for ATP production
Myoglobin
Tube-like invaginations or inward extensions on the surface of the sarcolemma
TRANSVERSE TUBULES OR T-TUBULES
Wrap around Sarcomeres where actin and myosin myofilaments overlap
TRANSVERSE TUBULES OR T-TUBULES
Contains high concentration of Ca ions which play an important role in stimulating muscle contraction
SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM
Cell membrane if muscle fibers
Role: Transmitting electrical impulses to the interior muscle fiber
SARCOLEMMA
Tubelike inward folds of the sarcolemma
Role: Carries electrical impulses into the center of the muscle fiber
TRANSVERSE TUBULES/ T TUBULES
Highly specialized smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Role: Stimulates muscle contraction
SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM
Threadlike structure, extending longitudinally through a muscle fiber consisting mainly of thick filaments (myosin) and thin filaments (actin, troponin and tropomyosin.)
MYOFIBRILS
_____ filaments - myosin
_____ filaments - actin, troponin and tropomyosin
Thick / Thin
Contractile elements of muscle fiber
MYOFIBRILS
Protein thread helping to form myofibrils in skeletal muscle
MYOFILAMENTS
Basic structural and functional unit of a skeletal muscle as it is the smallest portion of the skeletal muscle capable of contractin
SARCOMERE
Structures that separate one sarcomere to the next and forms a network of protein fibers that forms a stationary anchor for actin myofilaments to attach
Z disks
2 light staining bands; extends from an end of the myosin myofilament to another end of myosin myofilament of another sarcomere, including a Z disk; only contains actin myofilaments
I band
1 dark staining band; extends the length of the myosin myofilament within the sarcomere;
A band
Lighter staining region in between the A band, contains only myosin myofilaments
H Zone
Fine protein filaments that anchor the myosin myofilaments in place
M Line
Composed of actin, troponin and tropomyosin
ACTIN MYOFILAMENTS