Online course outline(majority of test) Lesson two Exercise physiology Flashcards
The muscular system is comprised of three types of muscle tissue
(a) ___________
(b) ___________
(c) ___________
a. Skeletal
b. Cardiac
c. Smooth
Define skeletal muscle
Striated muscle attached to the skeleton used to facilitate movement by applying force to bones and joints via contractions.
Cardiac muscle
Involuntary mononucleated striated muscle found primarily within the heart.
Smooth muscle
Non striated muscle found within the walls of hollow organs such as the bladder Uterus and GI tract.
Signals initiated in the (a)________ stimulate the nervous system, causing muscles to contract and produce tension
a. Brain
One word fills in all blanks ( How muscles contract):
Motor information is carried via (a)_________from the central nervous system (CNS)
(a)___________ – wave-like change in the electrical properties of a cell membrane that results from the difference in electrical charge between the inside and outside of the membrane and causes the muscle cell to contract
a. Action Potential
Tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins, forming an intricate network around body tissues in order to distribute oxygen and nutrients to the cells and remove waste substances
a. Capillaries
Cylindrical structures containing the myofilaments actin (thin filament) and myosin (thick filament)
a. Myofibrils
Surrounding myofibrils are a calcium-housing network called the (a)__________(SR),
a. Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Tube -like structures that transfer signals called T-tubules, and mitochondria, which are used to produce energy.
Tubular network that surrounds each individual myofibril and acts as a storage site for calcium within the skeletal muscle.
a. Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR)
Tubules that pass in a transverse manner from the sarcolemma across a myofibril of striated muscle passing signals within the cell
T-tubules
Tension is created in a group of muscle fibers by initiation of the (a)__________
a. Action potential
The (a)_________ travels via an electrical current through the spinal cord and is transferred to the peripheral nervous system (PNS)
a. Action potential
The part of the nervous system that is outside the central nervous system and comprises the cranial nerves excepting the optic nerve, the spinal nerves, and the autonomic nervous system
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
A part of the vertebrate nervous system that innervates smooth and cardiac muscle and glandular tissues and governs involuntary actions (such as secretion and peristalsis) and that consists of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system
Autonomic nervous system (Part of the Peripheral nervous system)
The part of the autonomic nervous system that contains chiefly cholinergic fibers, that tends to induce secretion, to increase the tone and contractility of smooth muscle, and to slow heart rate, and that consists of a cranial and a sacral part
Parasympathetic nervous system (part of the Autonomic nervous system)
The part of the autonomic nervous system that contains chiefly adrenergic fibers and tends to depress secretion, decrease the tone and contractility of smooth muscle, and increase heart rate
Sympathetic nervous system (part of the Autonomic nervous system)
The (a)________current runs through outer levels of muscle tissue to very small nerve fibers called motor neurons which connect to the particular fibers to be contracted.
a. Action potential
Motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates
Motor Unit
A cellular protein found especially in microfilaments (such as those comprising myofibrils) and active in muscular contraction, cellular movement, and maintenance of cell shape
Actin
A protein of muscle that together with tropomyosin forms a regulatory protein complex controlling the interaction of actin and myosin and that when combined with calcium ions permits muscular contraction
Troponin
A protein of muscle that forms a complex with troponin regulating the interaction of actin and myosin in muscular contraction.
Tropomyosin
A fibrous globulin of muscle that can split ATP and that reacts with actin in muscle contraction to form actomyosin
Myosin
A contractile complex of actin and myosin that together with ATP is active during muscular contraction.
Actomyosin