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Chapter 9- Muscles and Muscle Tissue

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What are the types of muscle tissue

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skeletal, smooth, cardiac

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Which type of muscle tissue are attached to bone and skin, are striated, voluntary, contract rapidly, and require nervous system stimulation?

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skeletal muscle

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What type of muscle tissue is only in the heart, striated, can contract without nervous system stimulation, and is involuntary?

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cardiac muscle

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What type of muscle tissue is also called visceral, is not striated, can contract without nervous system stimulation, is involuntary, and found in the walls of hollow organs?

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smooth muscle

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What type of muscle tissue is multinucleated?

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skeletal muscle

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What special characteristic of muscle tissue is the ability to receive and respond to stimuli?

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excitability

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What special characteristic of muscle tissue is the ability to shorten forcibly when stimulated?

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contractility 

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What special characteristic of muscle tissue is the ability to be stretched?

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extensibility

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What special characteristic of muscle tissue is the ability to recoil to resting length?

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elasticity

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What are the important functions of muscle?

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movement of fluid or bones; maintain posture and body position; stabilizing joints; heat generation 

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What are the additional functions of muscles?

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protect organs; form valves; control pupil size; causes goosebumps

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Each muscle is served by what?

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one artery, one nerve, and one or more veins

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What is the most external part of skeletal muscle - a dense, irregular connective tissue that surrounds the entire muscle?

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epimysium

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What is the fibrous connective tissue that surrounds fascicles (groups of muscle fibers) in skeletal muscle?

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perimysium

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What is the fine areolar connective tissue surrounding each individual muscle fiber/cell?

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endomysium

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Skeletal muscle attaches in at least what two places?

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origin and insertion

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What type of attachment in skeletal muscle occurs when the epimysium is fused to the periosteum of bone or the perichondrium of cartilage?

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direct 

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What type of attachment in skeletal muscle occurs when connective tissue wrappings extend beyond the muscle as rope-like tendon or sheetlike aponeurosis?

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indirect 

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What is the plasma membrane of a skeletal muscle fiber/cell called?

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sarcolemma

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What is the cytoplasm called in a skeletal muscle fiber?

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sarcoplasm

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What are the modified structures called in a skeletal muscle fiber?

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myofibrils, sarcoplasmic reticulum, and T tubules

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In skeletal muscle, what is the lighter region in the middle of the dark A band, where filaments do not overlap?

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H zone

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In skeletal muscle, what is the line of protein myomesin that bisects the H zone?

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M line

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In skeletal muscle, what is the coin shaped sheet of proteins on the midline of the light I band that anchors thin filaments and connects myofibrils to one another?

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Z disc (line)

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Which filaments run the entire length of the A band?

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thick filaments

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Which filaments run the length of the I band and partway into the A band?

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thin filaments

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What is the region between two successive Z discs called?

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sarcomere

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What is the smallest contractile unit (functional unit) of muscle fiber?

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sarcomere

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What are the thin filaments called that extend across the I band and partway into A band, and are anchored to Z discs?

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Actin

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What are the thick filaments called that extend the length of the A band and connect at the M line?

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Myosin 

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Myosin heads contain 2 smaller, light polypeptide chains that act as ______  _______ during contraction.

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cross bridges

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What are the regulatory proteins that bind to actin?

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tropomyosin and troponin 

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What links thin filaments to proteins of the sarcolemma; and are mutated in someone with muscular distrophy? 

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Dystrophin

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What functions in regulation of intracellular calcium levels, stores and releases calcium to allow muscles to contract?

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sarcoplasmic reticulum

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What are continuations of the sarcolemma, increase the muscle fiber's surface area, penetrate the cell's interior at each A band-I band junction, and associate with paired terminal cisterns to form triads that encircle each sarcomere?

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T tubules

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In the triad, what conducts impulses deep into the muscle fiber?

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T tubules

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During contraction, thin filaments slide past thick filaments, and actin and myosin overlap more.  This is called?

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sliding filament model of contraction

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What occurs when myosin heads bind to actin?

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cross bridges 

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What forms and breaks several times, ratcheting thin filaments towards the center of the sarcomere?

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cross bridges

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What must happen for skeletal muscle to contract?

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activation (must generate action potential in the sarcolemma) and excitation-contraction coupling (action potential is propagated along the sarcolemma and calcium levels rise briefly)

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What does the sarcoplasmic reticulum release to bind to troponin?

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calcium

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What happens when calcium/potassium enter/leave the cell?

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It becomes depolarized 

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When calcium binds to troponin, what is exposed?

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myosin-binding sites on actin

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What binds to actin, causing contraction to begin?

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myosin heads 

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Action potential travels along what, causing the sarcoplasmic reticulum to release calcium?

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T tubules