Skeletal and Smooth Muscle Flashcards
types of muscle cells
- skeletal
- smooth
- cardiac
which types of muscle cells are striated
- skeletal
- cardiac
what is a skeletal muscle cell called?
- muscle fiber
- myofiber
myofibers are composed of
- myofibrils
myofibrils contain
- myofilaments
- thick and thin
what is the functional unit of the myofibril called?
- sarcomere
plasma membrane of the myofiber called
- sarcolemmea
what are T tubules
- infoldings that bring plasma membrane deep into myofibril
thick filament is made of
- myosin
thin filament is made of
- actin
what is on top of actin
- tropomyosin and troponin
z lines define
- a single sarcomere
Triad is composed of
- T-tubular system and sarcoplasmic reticulum
neuromuscular junction is the synapse between
- somatic motor neuron
- skeletal muscle fiber
post synaptic region of the skeletal muscle at the NMJ
- motor end plate
all the motor fibers innervated by one somatic motor neuron
- motor unit
a somatic motor neuron innervates
- more than one muscle fiber
a muscle fiber is innervated by
- ONLY ONE SOMATIC MOTOR NEURON
start of somatic motor neuron events
- post synaptic potentials summate to exceed threshold
- action potential initiated
what happens after the action potential is initiated
- AP conducted along axon to terminal
- terminals depolarize
what happens when the terminals depolarize?
- voltage gated calcium channels open
what happens after voltage gated calcium channels open?
- calcium enters the presynaptic terminal
what happens after calcium enters the presynaptic terminal
- vesicles containing acetylcholine undergo exocytosis
- acetylcholine diffuses across synaptic cleft
what does acetylcholine bind to
- nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channels
what happens after acetylcholine binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channels
- receptor channels open which increase the permeability of synaptic membrane to Na and K
what happens after receptor channels open
- Na influx exceeds K+ efflux
- produces a depolarizing graded potential called EPP
what happens after the EPP is generated
- EPP exceeds threshold and initiates muscle action potential
what happens after the EPP initiates the muscle action potential
- voltage-gated Na+ channels open as the sarcolemma depolarizes
muscle action potential is conducted along
- the sarcolemma and into T tubules
what happens after the muscle action potential is conducted along the sarcolemma and T tubules
- voltage gated L-type calcium channels in T tubules open
voltage gated L-type calcium channels in T tubules have what kind of receptor
- DHP receptor