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Muscular System Flashcards

1
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Study of muscles

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Myology

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2
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Why is muscle tissue highly specialized?

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Able to contract and has excitable cells that react to stimulation

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Where is muscle tissue found?

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All over body

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4
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What are the 3 muscle types?

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Cardiac, smooth, skeletal

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5
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Striated, voluntary, large in size, multinucleated

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Skeletal muscle

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6
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How is skeletal muscle attached to bone?

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By tendons

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7
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Functions to move or stabilize skeleton, generate heat, voluntary sphincters

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Skeletal muscle

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8
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Striated but involuntary, intercalated discs, circulates blood and audtorhythmicity

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Cardiac muscle

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Non-striated, involuntary, spindle shaped, controls diameter of passageways, moves food, urine, reproductive tract secretions

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Smooth muscle

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10
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Where is smooth muscle found?

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Around blood vessels and in walls of hollow organs

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Ability to respond to stimulation by producing action potentials

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Excitability

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Ability to shorten and/or tense when stimulated by an action potential

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Contractility

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13
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Ability to return to its original length after contraction or extension

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Elasticity

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14
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What are the 5 functions of muscles?

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Body movement, stabilize body position, store and move substances in body, heat production, store nutrients

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15
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What types of nutrients do muscles reserve?

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Proteins that are broken down to amino acids

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16
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What are the 3 layers of connective tissues in muscles?

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Epimysium, perimysium, endmysium

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17
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Surrounds entire muscle

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Epimysium

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18
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Around muscle fascicles

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Perimysium

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19
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Surrounds individual muscle fibers

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Endomysium

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20
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Bundles of muscle fibers

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Muscle fascicle

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21
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Stem cells that repair damaged muscle tissue

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Myosatellite cells

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22
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Where are myosatellite cells located?

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Embedded in endomysium

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23
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Extension of the above 3 connective tissue layers

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Tendon

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24
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Flat, thick tendon

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Aponeuroses

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25
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Embryonic stem cells that fuse together to form muscle

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Myoblasts

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26
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Cell membrane of muscle

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Sarcolemma

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27
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Cytoplasm of muscle

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Sarcoplasm

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28
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Surrounds each myofibril; stores and releases calcium for muscle contraction

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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29
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Network of tubules used to convey electrical impulses for muscle contraction, allows muscle fiber to contract simultaneously

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T Tubules

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30
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How are t-tubules formed?

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Invaginations of sarcolemma

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31
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Scattered among myofibrils; provide ATP

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Mitochondria

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32
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Make up muscle fibers; bundles of proteins

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Myofibrils

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33
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How many myofibrils make up a fiber?

34
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Protein filaments responsible for muscle contractions

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Myofilaments

35
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Thin filament

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Thick filament

37
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What makes up a sarcomere? How many are in each myofibril?

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Actin and myosin, 10,000

38
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Refers to a wasting of muscle due to the loss of myofibrils within muscle fibers

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Muscular atrophy

39
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Increase in size of muscle fiber due to increased production of myofibrils

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Muscular hypertrophy

40
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When do muscle fibers form?

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Before birth

41
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Can fibers regenerate new cells?

42
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Cells that can regenerate new cells

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Myosatellite cells

43
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What is the organization of muscle from superficial to deep? (10)

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Epimysium, whole muscle, perimysium, fascicle, endomysium, sarcolemma, muscle fiber, sarcoplasmic reticulum, myofibril, myofilament

44
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Smallest contractile unit of a muscle fiber; basic functional unit of muscle fiber

45
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Anchors actin/thin filament; one at each end of sarcomere

46
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Anchors myosin/thick filament; midline of sarcomere

47
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Contain thick filaments and zone of overlap

48
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Region where thick and thin filaments overlap

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Zone of overlap

49
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Contains only thin filaments

50
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Striped or striated pattern within myofibrils; alternating dark thick filaments and thin filaments

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Striations

51
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Controls tropomyosin and calcium binds to it

52
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Lies in actin’s groove and acts to block myosin from attaching to actin’s active site; blocks cross bridge formation

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Tropomyosin

53
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Each actin protein has one; blocked by the troponin/tropomyosin complex under normal resting conditions

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Active site

54
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Motor protein; short rods (tails) with globular heads (project out towards actin that surrounds it)

55
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Double row protein with groove

56
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Formed when myosin heads interact with actin’s active sites during contraction

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Cross-bridges

57
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Where are ATP-binding sites found?

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Myosin heads

58
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What happens when myosin cross bridges pull on actin?

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Actin slides towards M line alongside myosin

59
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What is the 1st step in the sliding filament theory?

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AP leads to release of Ca by sarcoplasmic reticulum, Ca binds to troponin causing the active sites on actin to be exposed

60
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What is the 2nd step in the sliding filament theory?

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Cross bridges form when myosin heads bind onto actin

61
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What is the 3rd step in the sliding filament theory?

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Myosin heads pivot towards the M line

62
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What is the 4th step in the sliding filament theory?

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ATP gives myosin heads energy to unattached and reset

63
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Time period of muscle rigidity following death, due to depletion of ATP

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Rigor mortis

64
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Synapse between motor neuron and skeletal muscle fiber

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Neuromuscular junction

65
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Site of communication between somatic motor neuron and skeletal muscle fiber of another cell

66
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How many NMJ’s does each muscle fiber have?

67
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The axon of one motor neuron branches and forms NMJs with _____ muscle fiber cells

68
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What is the presynaptic cell in an NMJ?

69
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What is the postsynaptic cell in an NMJ

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Muscle cell

70
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Region of sarcolemma opposite of synaptic terminals

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Motor end plate

71
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Expanded tip of the axon at NMJ

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Synaptic terminal

72
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Vesicle filled with neurotransmitters

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Synaptic vesicle

73
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Space that separates synaptic terminal from motor end plate

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Synaptic cleft

74
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What is the 1st step of physiology at NMJ?

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Action potential travels down axon to synaptic terminal

75
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What is the 2nd step of physiology at NMJ?

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Calcium channels open which causes the exocytosis of synaptic vesicles filled with acetylcholine

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What is the 3rd step of physiology at NMJ?

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ACh diffuses in to synaptic cleft and binds onto the surface of sarcolemma at the motor end plate, sodium rushes into sarcoplasm

77
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What is the 4th step of physiology at NMJ?

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Rush of sodium causes an action potential in the sarcolemma starting the muscle contraction

78
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Enzyme that breaks down ACh

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Acetylcholinesterase

79
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Caused by bacterium found in improperly canned foods

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Botulinum toxin

80
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What is the function of botulinum toxin?

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Blocks release of synaptic vesicles at NMJ

81
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What can no ACh to cause contraction do?

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Paralysis of respiratory muscles

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