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What are the classifications of muscles?

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Cardiac, skeletal, smooth

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Skeletal

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Voluntary, stratified
Located in overlying skeleton
Multinucleated

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Smooth

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Involuntary, nonstratifed
Located in the organs or visecra
One nucleus

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Cardial

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Involuntary, stratified
Located in the heart, myocardium
One nucleus

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5
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Name of the muscle cell

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Myocyte, muscular fiber

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6
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Every muscle is covered by a layer of?

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Connective tissue/ fascia

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Fascia has three layers

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Epimysium (most external), perimysium (middle), endomysium (most internal)

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8
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Parts of muscular fiber

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum (has calcium inside), Sarcolemma (plasmatic membrane), T-tubule

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9
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What is a fascicile?

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bundle of muscle fibers, also called myocytes, bound together via the endomysium tissue that provides pathways for the passage of blood vessels and nerves.

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What is inside the myofibril?

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Myosin and actin (make contraction)

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11
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What is the main function of skeletal muscle?

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Contraction

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12
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Thin filaments

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Actin

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Thick filament

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Myosin

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14
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When thick and thin filaments come together it is

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contracted

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15
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What does the actin and myosin need?

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Calcium

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What is the sliding mchanism of the filament?

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1) Myosin heads make contact with actin
2)Myosin heads rotate
3)Actin is pulled to the center of the
sarcomere

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17
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What is the sliding mchanism of the filament?

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1) Myosin heads make contact with actin
2) Myosin heads rotate
3) Actin is pulled to the center of the
sarcomere
4) Sarcomere shortensmuscle
contraction

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18
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When a patient has a lumbar injury

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the neuron can’t stimulate the muscle

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19
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Where is the calcium stored?

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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20
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Calcium allows

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the interaction of actin, myosin, ATP

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21
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Muscles relax when

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Calcium returns to SR

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22
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Skeletal muscle contraction only takes
place

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when it is first stimulated by a
nerve

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23
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Where does somatic motor nerve emerge from?

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Spinal chord –> skeletal muscle

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24
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Single muscle vs whole muscle

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single muscle has an “all or nothing” response, but
a whole muscle can vary its force of contraction
-motor unit, recruitment

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25
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Innervation

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Nerves that supplies a muscle for contraction

26
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What is neurmuscular junction?

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The joining between neurocyte and myocyte

27
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Three different types of neurons?

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Sensory, motor, interneuron

28
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Twitch

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Single muscle response in which
muscle contracts and then fully relaxes

29
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Tetanus

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Sustained muscle contraction
caused by repeated stimulation

30
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Tonus

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Normal, continuous state of
partial muscle contraction
Fights against gravity force, lets you be erect

31
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What are the energy sources for muscle contraction?

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Metabolism of creatinine, glycolisis (anaerobic metabolsim), aerobic metabolism

32
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Muscle terms

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Origin, insertion, prime mover, synergist, antagonist

33
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Product of anaerobic metabolism

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2 ATP, lactic acid

34
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Origin

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Stationary attachment

35
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Insertion

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Mobile attachment

36
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Synergy

A

coordinated movements that occur when multiple muscle groups are activated simultaneously
-Ex: the biceps brachii and brachialis muscles both act to flex the forearm.

37
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Antagonist

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The muscle that opposes the action of another
Ex: When the triceps oppose the contraction of the flexing biceps by relaxing

38
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Prime mover

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Principal muscle that performs action

39
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Hypertrophy

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Growth in response to overuse

40
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Atrophy

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Disuse atrophy (cast) , denervation atrophy (no stimulation of nervous system/paralysis), senile atrophy (older)

41
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Innvervention and irrigation

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Nerves in muscle, blood in muscle

42
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How skeletal muscles are named?

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Size, shape, direction, location, number of origins, origin and insertion, muscle action

43
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What is the somatic motor neuron?

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Supplies skeletal muscle and emerges from the spinal cord and to skeletal muscles, contractions only take place when stimulated by a nerve

44
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Contracture

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abnormal fibrous formation in muscle that freezes in flexed position

45
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What is meant by motor unit recruitment?

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the process by which different motor units are activated to produce a given level and type of muscle contraction.

46
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Each fibre within a motor unit contracts according to _____

A

The all or none law
When a motor unit receives a stimulus of sufficient intensity to bring forth a response, all the muscle fibres within the unit will contract at the same time, and to the maximum possible extent.

47
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What is the neuromuscular junction?

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-Space between motor neuron and muscle
-Where nerves and muscle fibers meet—is an essential synapse for muscle contraction and movement

48
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Steps of Information Transfer from Neuron to NMJ

A

-Neuron stimulation causes an electrical
impulse to move toward the neuron’s
end
-Vesicles move toward and fuse with the
membrane
-ACh diffuses and binds to muscle
membrane receptor sites
-ACh stimulates receptors, causing an
electrical impulse

49
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Things that can cause impairement of NMJ

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Myasthenia gravis- neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles
Curare- muscle relaxent
Neurotoxins- bacteria that causes tetanus, botox, and botulism

50
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Tonic contraction

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Sustained contraction of different groups of muscles, maintains continual muscular contraction

51
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Where is myoglobin found?

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Striated muscles such as skeletal or heart muscles

52
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Main function of myoglobin

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Supply oxygen to the cells in your muscles (myocytes).
-Remember by hemoglobin that provides oxygen for organs and tissues

53
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Isometric contraction

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Muscle contraction without motion

54
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Isotonic contraction

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Muscular contraction in which length of muscle changes

55
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What is a sphincter?

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A ring of muscle surrounding and serving guard to an opening or closing tube

56
Q

Provide examples of a sphincter

A

Anus, opening of stomach, urinary bladder

57
Q

What happens when urinary sphincters contract?

A

When these muscles contract, the urethra narrows, and urination stops or slows

58
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Muscle cells or myocytes are also called

A

muscular fibers

59
Q

What are the z lines?

A

Part of the sarcomere and where thin filaments attach

60
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What happens when the sarcomere shortens?

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Muscle contraction, the thick and thin filaments slide up against eachother

61
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Myofibrils form

A

muscle fibers

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