Musculoskeletal System Flashcards
The musculoskeletal system is made up of:
bones and joints
-muscles
-cartilage
-tendons and ligaments
-other connective tissue
The musculoskeletal systems primary function are
support the body
-allow motions
-protecting vital organs
Purpose:
* To move the body
* Convert chemical energy
to mechanical energy
(ATP to Force)
Muscles
push or pull on one object by another
Force
individual muscle cell
muscle fiber
what are the contractile proteins
-Actin
-myosin
what are the types of muscles
-skeletal
-cardiac
-smooth
Individual muscles made
up of___________
muscle bundles
Muscle bundles made up
of _________
Muscle fibers
Muscle fibers are made
up of ____________
myofibrils
what organizes myofibrils
-Thin Filament
-thick filament
-z-disc
-sarcomere
Actin surrounded by double
helix of Tropomyosin
Thin Filament
Myosin
Thick Filament
thin filaments
are attached to this
protein backbone
Z-disc
contractile
unit; area from one z-disc
to the next
Sarcomere
a motor
neuron and all of the
myofibers that connect to
it
Motor Unit
Action potential from
nerves connects to the
muscles at the___________
motor endplate
What releases Ca+2
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
what does Ca+2 bind with
Troponin
what happens when Ca+2 binds with troponin
moves the tropomyosin to expose actin binding sites
excitation of the muscle cell
is coupled to contraction of
the muscle
excitation-contraction coupling