Physiology Flashcards
Where does the external ear start and end?
Starts at the pinna and ends at the tympanic membrane
Where does the middle ear start and end?
What does it contain?
Starts at the tympanic membrane and ends at the round and oval windows
Contains the mallus, incus, and stapes (MIS)
What is the membranous labyrinth and what does it contain?
It is contained within the bony labyrinth made of saclike, membranous ducts and sacs.
Cochlear duct within the cochlea, the utricle and saccule in the vestibule, and the semicircular ducts within the semicircular canals
What fluid is contained within the bony labyrinth?
Perilymph
What fluid is contained within the membranous labyrinth?
Endolymph that is similar to ICF and has a high potassium concentration
In sound transmission, what does wave amplitude signify?
Loudness
In sound transmission, what does wave frequency signify?
Pitch
How are sound vibrations transferred to the inner ear?
The stapes will be vibrating on the oval window. This wound transfer allows the amplification of sound pressure needed to move the liquid within the cochlea
When the stapes hits the oval window, where does the oval window bow into?
Bows into the scala vestibuli rhythmically
What is audible sound?
When there is movement from scala vestibuli to scala tympani through the basilar membrane
Where are the hairs required for hearing found?
In the organ of corti
What is released onto the sensory neurons in hearing?
Glutamate
Name the steps of hearing
First, bending of hairs open mechanically gated ion channels that allows potassium ions to enter from the ENDOLYMPH.
That allows it to depolarize and open the voltage-gated calcium ion channels.
Influx of calcium leads to bursts of releases of glutamate onto sensory neurons
Glutamate increases the AP production in sensory neurons into the cochlear branch of the vestibular cochlear nerve
Where and how are pitches determined?
High pitches resonate at higher frequencies at the oval window. Lower pitches resonate at lower frequencies near the apex
Neural pathways to the brain for hearing
- Fibers of sensory neurons synapse with interneurons in the brainstem.
- Sensory input from both ears converges on the same interneuron.
- Information goes to the colliculus of the midbrain.
- Signal is sent to the medial geniculate nucleus of the thalamus.
- They then all synapse with interneurons that carry information to the auditory cortex of the temporal lobe in the cerebrum
What is the plasma membrane of muscle cells?
Sarcolemma and attaches to tendons
What is the cytoplasm of the muscle cells?
Sarcoplasm
Composition of muscle fibers from large to small
Muscle – Fasciciuli – muscle fibers — myofibrils – Sarcomere – Myofilaments – Actin Filaments
What are the tails and heads of a myosin protein?
Tails are heavy chains (2). Heads are light chains (4)
Binding of troponins
TIC TAC: Troponin T = Tropomyosin;
Troponin I = Actin;
Troponin C = Calcium
Role of tropomyosin
Binds to actin and covers up active sites that would bind to myosin heads
Role of F-Actin
Binds to myosin heads and allow for contractions
What interdigitates with myosin
Actin
What are A bands composed of?
Myosin (Thick filaments)
What are I bands composed of?
Actin (Thin filaments)
What is the role of titin?
Maintains the alignment between actin and myosin filaments: It is the spring between z disc and myosin
What is the transmitter in the neuromuscular junction?
Ach
Where is Ach embedded in the neuron for skeletal muscles?
In the plasma membrane of the postsynaptic cell
What allows the release of Ach into the synaptic cleft?
Calcium allows the neuron to package and release Ach (5000) via exocytosis
Where do vesicles from the neuron bind to?
After traveling through the synaptic cleft, they bind to the sarcolemma
What prevents the Ach vesicles from reaching the sarcolemma?
Acetylcholinesterase
What is the curare poison?
Prevents calcium from entering the PREsynapic cleft. Neuron does not get calcium in order to package and release Ach
What allows the muscle cell to go through a graded potential?
Binding of two Ach will open up a cation gate. Mainly sodium is what rushes in
What is EPSP?
Excitatory Post-synaptic Potential or End Plate potential (EPP). The potential that happens after the synaptic cleft
What are T-Tubules?
When ATP Invaginations of the sarcolemma that is filled with ECF.
This allows the AP to run inward
When is a myosin head uncocked/sprung?
When ATP is bound (Not interacting with the actin filament) OR When phosphate leaves the ADP-Pi complex on the myosin head (Interacting with the actin filament. The release of the Pi is what slides the actin filament)
When is myosin cocked?
When ADP and phosphate are attached. (ATP was hydrolyzed. ADP and Pi are still attached to head. Myosin is not associated with actin filament)
How is a cocked myosin allowed to interact with the active site of the actin filament?
If troponin is attached to calcium, it pulls tropomyosin away from the active site and allows the myosin head to attach. This creates the cross bridge
What is one muscle fiber innervated by?
Only ONE motor neuron
What does one motor neuron innervate?
Multiple muscle fibers