Muscular System Flashcards
Aka “striated muscles”
Skeletal muscle
Type of muscle with no striations
Smooth Muscle
Spindle shaped type of muscle
Smooth Muscle
Cover bones and cartilages
Skeletal Muscle
Forms the bulk of the heart walls
Cardiac Muscle
Portion between two Z-discs
Sarcomere
Part of sarcomere that disappears when the muscle contracts
H zone
Actin alone
I-band
Two types of myofilaments
Thin filaments and thick filaments
Myosin plus actin
A-band
Two uninucleate muscles
Cardiac Muscle and Smooth Muscle
Found of the walls of hollow visceral organs
Smooth Muscle
Aligned along the length of the myofibrils
Sarcomere
Made up of double stranded F-action protein molecules
Actin
Thin filament that covers the binding sites
Troponin I
Spiral over the actin that covers the actin binding sites
Tropomyosin
Myosin head with attachment sites of the myosin
Superior head
Myosin head with attachment site for ATP
Inferior head
Conveys action potential towards sarcoplasmic reticulum
T-Tubule
Stores and release calcium
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Muscle bundle/fascicle
Perimyseum
Skeletal muscle fiber
Epimysium
Muscle fibers
Endomysium
Has branching cell fibers joined by a special gap junction called intercalated discs
Cardiac Muscle
Center of the H Zone
M-line
Lighter central area of the A-band
H Zone
Contains tiny protein rods that hold adjacent thick filaments together
M-line
Forms a complex called troponin-tropomyosin complec
Troponin T
High affinity with calcium
Troponin C
Cytoplasm of a muscle fiber
Sarcoplasm
Cell membrane of a muscle fiber
Sarcolemma
Ability to receive and respond to a stimulus
Irritability/Responsiveness