Musculoskeletal Flashcards
Major Properties of Muscles
Contractility
Excitably
Extensibility
Elasticity
Contractility
Shorten muscle
Excitability
Muscle response to stimulus
extensibility
Ability to stretch
elasticity
ability to recoil to resting length
Skeletal muscle
Attach to bones
Nuclei are multiple per cell and peripherally located
striated
Important structures of skeletal muscles
Bone, tendon, fascicle, blood vessels, muscle fiber
tendons
fibrous connective tissues that connect to muscle fibers
Muscle anatomy
Origin or head
insertion
belly
Synergists
Separates muscles that work together to cause moment around a joint
agonist
muscles causing a particular action when it contracts
antagonists
muscles working in opposition to agonist, typically relaxes during contraction of agonist
parallel fiber arrangement
longitudinal
pennate fibers arrangement
on an angle
What are the ends od the sarcomere
z lines
Gating
opening and closing of ion channel in response to electrical or chemical signal
Selective Permeability
Allows selective ions to pass through
3 phases of action potential
- depoalrization
- repolarization
- hyperpolarization