Week 4 Muscular System Flashcards
What are the three types of muscles
Smooth
Cardiac
Skeletal
What are the prominent locations of smooth muscle
Wall of GI tract
Walls of arteries and veins
Around glands
What type of control does smooth muscle have
Involuntary
What type of control does cardiac muscle have? Where is it located
Wall of heart
Involuntary control
Where is skeletal muscle located and what type of control does it have
Attached/covers bones
Voluntary control
Endomysium covers?
Covers cardiac muscle fibers
What do gap junction do in cardiac muscle
Let’s kind through from cell to cell
What do intercalated disks do in cardiac muscle
Coordinates impulses
What is a sarcolemma
Membrane of a cardiac muscle cell
What are the 3 primary functions of skeletal muscle
Skeletal movement
Posture maintenance
Heat generation
Structure of a muscle: what is a fascicle
Bundle of muscle fibers (cells)
-many bundles make up a whole muscle
What does connective tissue do? What are the 3 layers of CT
Holds fascicles together
3 layers: endomysium, perimysium, epimysium (deep fascia)
What is a band of dense CT that attaches muscle to bone
Tendon
Nerve impulses are aka?
Hint they cause movement
Motor impulses
Nerve impulses are carried by
Motor neurons
The axon carries impulses to the
Muscles (target area)
What is the motor unit
The stimuli and all stimulated muscle fivers
What is the neuromuscular junction (NMJ)
The point at which a nerve fiber contacts a muscle cell (synapse)
What is the specific neurotransmitter released @NMJ
Acetylcholine (ACh)
ACh crosses the synaptic cleft and attaches to a ACh receptor at the
Motor end plate (receiving muscle membrane)
What is initiated by the ACh/receptor
Action potential
Motor unit is a
Single neuron and all the muscle fibers it stimulates
What uses small motor units and are more controlled, very precise movements
Fine movements
(Ex. Muscles of the hand, eye)
What uses larger motor units
Broad movements
(Ex. Maintaining posture, walking, golfing)
What are the properties of muscle tissue
Excitability
Action potential
Contractility
What is the functional unit of contraction in the skeletal muscle fiber
Sarcomere
Sarcomeres contract via the
Sliding filament mechanism
Do the actin or myosin filaments in the sarcomere change in length as the contraction proceeds
Actin filaments change in length b/c myosin pulls them together
Calcium is needed for
Muscle contraction
Where is calcium stored
In the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR)
(Stored here until released into the cytoplasm by action potential)
When the SR releases the calcium into cytoplasm, it binds to troponin causing both proteins to shift off of actin and expose binding sites this allows for
Cross bridges to form between actin and myosin so that the sliding action can begin