Week 5 Muscles 1 Flashcards
What are the myofilaments?
Thin actin filaments and thick filaments of myosin
Movement is achieved by?
Contraction of myofilaments
Muscle responsibility
Movement of body parts
Do all of our cells have actin and myosin?
Yes. It’s only a matter of how they organize and assemble it in the cytoplasm. Most HIGHLY characterized in muscle
Types of muscle
1) Striated
2) Smooth
Examples of striated muscle?
1) Skeletal
2) Visceral striated muscle
3) Cardiac
Examples of special visceral striated muscle?
Tongue, pharynx, upper part of esophagus
What is the biggest way to differentiate smooth and striated muscle?
Smooth muscle doesn’t have striations
What are the myofilaments?
Actin and myosin
What is myofibril?
The muscle fiber that makes up tissue; made of myofilaments (actin and myosin)
Myofibrils are formed from?
Myoblast precursors, it’s a fusion of cells, so it is multinucleated
Myofibrils are multinucleated or singular?
Multinucleated bc of the fusion of myoblast precursors
Myofibrils bundle together to form a?
Muscle fiber
Muscle fibers are different form what other fibers? How?
ECM fibers. ECM are individual proteins. Muscle fibers are fused multinucleated long cells
Skeletal muscle is many muscle fibers held together by?
Connective tissue: Endomysium, perimysium, epimysium