Tissues (Muscle & Nervous) Flashcards
Function is to contract, or shorten, to produce movement
Muscle Tissue
3 types of muscle tissue
Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth
Packaged by connective tissue sheets into ___ muscles, which are attached to the skeleton and pull-on bones or skin
Skeletal
Voluntarily
Produces gross body movements or facial expressions
Peripherally located
Skeletal muscle tissue
Striations (stripes)
Multinucleate (more than one nucleus)
Long, cylindrical shape
Skeletal muscle tissue
muscle to bone
Tendon
bone to bone
Ligament
Involuntarily controlled
Found only in the heart
Pumps blood through blood vessels
Central
Cardiac muscle tissue
Striations
One nucleus per cell
Short, branching cells
Intercalated discs contain gap junctions to connect cells together
Cardiac muscle tissue
Involuntarily controlled
Found in walls of hollow organs such as stomach, uterus, and blood vessels
Peristalsis, a wavelike activity, is a typical activity
Centrally located
Smooth (visceral) muscle tissue
No visible striations
One nucleus per cell
Spindle-shaped cells
Smooth (visceral) muscle tissue
Nervous Tissue function is to receive and conduct electrochemical impulses to and from body parts
(I, C)
Irritability
Conductivity
Nervous tissue contains two categories of cells:
neurons and neuroglia (glial cells)
Nervous tissue Found in the:
Brain, spinal cord, nerves
Consists of projections of cytoplasm surrounded by membrane
Dendrites and Axon
Contains nucleus
Site of general cell functions
Cell body
receive action potentials
shorter than axons
have multiple branches
Dendrites
conducts potentials away from the cell body
much longer than dendrites
Axon
3 neurons
M, B, P
Multipolar
Bipolar
Pseudounipolar
Support cells of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves
Nourish, protects, and insulate neurons
Glia
The neuron consists of dendrites, a cell body, and a long axon; glia, or support cells, surround the neurons
Neurons transmit information in the form of action potentials, store “information,” and integrate and evaluate data; glia support, protect, and form specialized sheaths around axons
Multipolar Neuron Structure
The neuron consists of a cell body with one axon
Conducts action potentials from the periphery to the brain or spinal cord
Pseudo-Unipolar Neuron
Wound Healing
Tissue Repair
Tissue Repair occurs in two ways
R & F
- Regeneration
2. Fibrosis
Replacement of destroyed tissue by the same kind of cells
Regeneration
Repair by dense (fibrous) connective tissue (scar tissue)
Fibrosis