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A&P Exam 3

front 1

Excitability

back 1

the ability to respond to stimulus

front 2

Conductivity

back 2

electrical changes that travels along the plasma membrane opening voltage-gated channels

front 3

Contractility

back 3

contractile proteins within in the muscle slide past one another (sliding
filament)

front 4

Elasticity

back 4

ability to return to its original length

front 5

Extensibility

back 5

Lengthening of a muscle fiber

front 6

skeletal Muscle Functions

back 6

-Body Movement

-Maintenance of posture
-Protection and Support
-Regulating elimination
of materials (sphincters at orifices)
-Heat Production

front 7

Muscle Fiber

back 7

muscle cell

front 8

Fascicle

back 8

group of
bound muscle fibers

front 9

Myofibril

back 9

small tubules with in the muscle fiber that contain the contractile unit called
sarcomere

front 10

Connective Tissue Functions

back 10

-Protection

-Sites for distribution of blood vessels and nerves

-Attachment to the skeleton

front 11

3 Layers of Connective Tissue

back 11

-Epimysium

-Perimysium

-Endomysium

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Epimysium

back 12

-Surrounds the whole muscle

-Dense irregular tissue

front 13

Perimysium

back 13

-Surrounds the fascicle

-Dense irregular tissue

-Contains lots of blood vessels and nerves

front 14

Endomysium

back 14

-Surrounds and electrically insulates each individual muscle fiber

-Areolar tissue

-Contains reticular fibers to help bind together muscle fibers

front 15

Tendon

back 15

-Thick cord like structure

-Formed by three layers of connective tissue

-Dense irregular tissue

-Attach muscle to bone

front 16

Aponeurosis

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-A thin flattened sheet of dense irregular tissue

-Connects two muscle bellies

front 17

Muscle Fiber Structure

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-Multi nucleated

-Special cell membrane

-Sarcoplasmic reticulum

-Myofibrils

-Myofilaments

-Sarcomere

front 18

Multinucleated

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Myoblasts fuse to form a single muscle fiber

front 19

Satellite Cells

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Myoblasts that do not fuse

-Remain in muscle tissue to repair damaged muscle tissue

front 20

Sarcolemma

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Conducts electrical impulses

front 21

T-tubules

back 21

deep invaginations of the sarcolemma that extend into the skeletal muscle fiber to stimulate the sarcoplasmic reticulum

front 22

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SER)

back 22

Internal membrane complex that is similar to smooth ER

front 23

Terminal Cisternae

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Sacs at the end of the SER that store calcium

front 24

Calcium pumps vs calcium channels

back 24

Pumps: Move calcium into SER

Channel: Move calcium out of SER

front 25

Calcmodulin and Calsquestrin

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Proteins that bind calcium with the SER

front 26

Myofibrils

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-Long, cylindrical structures that extend the length of the muscle fiber

-80% of the skeletal muscle volume

-Composed of the myofilaments

front 27

Myofilaments

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-Contractile proteins that are bundled within the myofibrils

front 28

2 Types of Myofilaments

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Myosin=thick

Actin=thin

front 29

Thick

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-200 to 500 myosin proteins

-Myosin: globular head and elongated tail (golf club)

front 30

Thin

back 30

-Composed of 2 strands of actin protein

-Actin: 2 protein strands that are twisted around each other

front 31

Tropomyosin

back 31

regulatory protein that covers the myosin binding sites of actin until

front 32

Troponin

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regulatory protein that binds with calcium to move tropomyosin off of the myosin binding sites of actin

front 33

Sarcomere

back 33

-Repeating units within the myofilaments

-The contractile unit

front 34

Z Disc

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proteins that are positioned perpendicular to the myofilaments and serve as anchors for the thin filaments

-separates sarcomeres

front 35

I Bands

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extend in both directions of a Z disc

-thin filaments only

-disappears during maximal contraction

front 36

A Band

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central region that contains the entire
thick filament

-thin overlaps thick slightly

-does not change shape during contraction

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H Zone

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most central portion of the A band

-NO thin filament over lapping! Thick filaments only!

-disappears as well

front 38

M Line

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thin transverse protein meshwork in the center of the H zone

-attachment for thick filaments

front 39

Connection (green coil on diagram)

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extends from the Z disc to the M line through the core of each thick filament

-stabilizes thick filaments

-has coiled section to help with recoil; able to return to normal shape after contraction

front 40

Dystrophin

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a complex protein that anchors myofibrils to other proteins with in the
sarcolemma that extend to the endomysium

front 41

GO OVER MUSCLE CONTRACTION STEPS!!!

back 41

Find them in slides on #33 and after that.

front 42

Skeletal Muscle Fiber Types

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-Fast-twitch

-Slow-twitch

-Fast Glycolytic

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Fast-twitch

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-Anaerobic

-Larger in diameter

-Strength and speed

-Light in color

-Contains medium amounts of mitochondria and myoglbin

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Slow-twitch

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-Aerobic

-Small in diameter

-appear red

-contain lots of mitochondria and myoglobin

-endurance

front 45

Fast Glycolytic (anaerobic fibers)

back 45

-anaerobic

-largest fibers

-white in color

-contains few mitochondria or myoglobin

-short duration (sprinting and weight lifting)

front 46

Factors affecting tension

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-length-tension relationship

-length-tension curve

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Length-tension relationship

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the amount of overlap of thick and thin filaments when the muscle begins its contraction

front 48

length-tension curve

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muscle generates different amounts of tension dependent upon its length at the time of stimulation

front 49

Muscle Tension

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resting tension in a muscle generated by involuntary nervous stimulation of the muscle

front 50

Muscle Fatigue

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The reduced ability to inability of the muscle to produce muscle tension

front 51

Isometric contraction

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contraction of a muscle where no movement is created

front 52

Isotonic contraction

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muscle tension results in movement of the muscle

front 53

Concentric contraction

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shortening of the muscle length

(Occurs when the muscle tension is greater than resistance)

front 54

Eccentric contraction

back 54

lengthening of the muscle

(Muscle exerts less force than needed to move the load)

front 55

Cardiac Muscle Cells

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-Short

-Y branching

-1 or 2 nuclei

-striated

-joined by intercalated disc

front 56

Autorhythmic

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Specialized muscle cells that are
responsible for repetitious, rhythmic
contractions

front 57

Compare smooth vs skeletal muscle

SMOOTH

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-Thick filaments have myosin heads along entire length

-Myosin heads have a modification to latch-on to thin filament (latchbridging)

-NO troponin, instead has MLCK (myosin light-chain kinase) and myosin light chain phophatase

front 58

Compare smooth vs skeletal muscle

SKELETAL

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-Thick filaments have myosin heads along the ends

-No latchbridging

-Has troponin

front 59

Compare smooth vs skeletal muscle

BOTH

back 59

-Calcium stimulates contraction

-Myosin uses ATP for power stroke

-Thin filament slides
past the thick filament