Muscular system Flashcards
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Scientific study of muscles
Myology
3 types of muscles
- skeletal muscle
- cardiac muscle
- smooth muscle
Striated and voluntary
Skeletal muscle
striated and involuntary
cardiac muscle
non-striated and involuntary
Smooth muscle
4 properties of muscular tissue
- electrical excitability
- contractility
- extensibility
- elasticity
Muscular tissue’s property to respond to stimulus
electrical excitability
muscular tissue’s property to shorten
contractility
muscular tissue’s property that allows it to be stretched
extensibility
Muscular tissue’s property to be able to recoil to original resting length
elasticity
Function of MS
- produce body movements
- stabilizing body positions
- storing and moving substances within the body
- thermogenesis
Attached to the bones and moves parts of the skeleton
SKELETAL MUSCLE
- Striated
- Voluntary
- Limited capacity for regeneration
SKELETAL MUSCLE
Alternating light and dark bands
Striated
Means Conscious control
Voluntary
- Small number of cells that can undergo cell division
Limited capacity for regeneration
Dense layer of connective tissue that surrounds entire muscle
Epimysium
Connective tissue that surrounds each fascicle
Perimysium
Delicate connective tissue (reticular fibers and basal lamina) that surrounds each muscle cell (fiber)
Endomysium
Histology of muscle
- cylindrical muscle fibers parallel to one another (elongated/cylindrical with blunt ends)
- Multi-nucleated (peripheral [at the sides])
What do you call the plasma membrane in muscles?
Sarcolemma
Invaginations of the sarcolemma
Transverse tubules
Cytoplasm for muscles?
Sarcoplasm
Where synthesis of ATP takes place
Glycogen
This binds O2 molecules
Myoglobin
Plays a role in muscle contraction
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
This is a filament
Myofibrils
Two types of myofibrils
Thick filament, thin filament
basic functional unit of striated muscle fibers; separated by Z discs
Sarcomeres
extends the entire length of the thick filaments.
- A band
center of each A band
H zone
end of each A band; contains the rest of the thin filaments
- I band
necessary for contraction to take place; delivered by a motor neuron
Muscle action potential
single motor neuron + the muscle fibers it stimulates
Motor Unit
synapse between a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle fiber
Neuromuscular junction (NMJ)
nerve cells that carry action potentials to muscle fibers
Motor neuron
end of nerve cell (axon)
Presynaptic terminal
muscle fiber membrane
Postsynaptic membrane
space between presynaptic terminal and postsynaptic membrane
- Synaptic cleft
- in presynaptic terminal
- store and release neurotransmitters
Synaptic vesicle
- chemicals that stimulate or inhibit a muscle
fiber - Ex. Acetylcholine
Neurotransmitter