muscle contraction Flashcards
motor unit
motor neuron + it’s muscle fibers
large fibers - large movement
small - fine movement (eye)
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NMJ
presyn = axon terminal
postsyn = muscle endplate
steps at the NMJ
- Ap conducted into pre-syn terminal
- depolarize pre-syn terminal
- Opening of VG-Ca2+ channels and entry
- fusion of vesicles w membrane - Ach into cleft
- Ach binds receptor on post-syn membrane
- opening of channels on post-syn membrane - Na and K travel down gradient
- generation of EPP
- Ach broken down into coline and acetate - choline back to pre-syn
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EEP characteristics
latency - delay from AP –> muscle
graded - size dep on how many vesicles of Ach released
quantal - goes up step by step (each vesicle) - adds up to full potential
decremental conduction - gets smaller further away from end plate
high safety factory (skel muscle) - as long as EPP what it’s supposed to be you will get AP!
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decremental conduction
if EEP but NOT AP
at nmj you can still see the EEP but it goes away (still see same strong AP far away)
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muscle structure
muscle - fascile - muscle cell (fiber) - myofibrils (in muscle cell covered by SR) - myofibrils - sarcomere (with actin and myosin)
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T tubules
formed from invaginations of plasma membrane
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triad
sarcoplasmic reticulum cisterna on either side of transverse tubule
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skeletal muscle excitation
- AP into T tubules
- VG L-type Ca channel conformational change
- Ca release channel open (mechanically cated, Ca gated)
- mytoplasmic [Ca] increases
Ca DOES NOT MOVE through L-type channels in the T tubules
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how do skeletal and cardiac muscle excitation differ
- Ca enters through L type channels
- no mechanical link between L type and SR ca release (80% from SR, 20% from membrane)
- can be modulated
tropomyosin
binds to actin and troponin
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TnT
troponin T
binds to tropomyosin
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TnC
tropinon
binds to Calcium
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TnI
interferes
troponin
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how does troponin work
increased Ca –> binds to TnC –> actomyosin complex formed –> tension increases
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E-C coupling in skeletal muscle
muscle action potential
increase in Ca - myoplasm
Ca-troponin
increase muscle tension
decrease muscle tension
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SERCA
Ca-ATPase - pumps Ca back into SR
primary active transport
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