Ch. 9 Muscle Tissue Flashcards

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Smooth Muscle

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Structure: Not striated
Location: Intestine, respiratory, blood vessels
Characteristics: Involuntary, autonomic, nervous, hormones

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Cardiac Muscle

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Structure: Striated
Location: Heart
Characteristics: Involuntary, autonomic nervous, hormones

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Skeletal Muscle

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Structure: Striated
Location: All over the body
Characteristics: Voluntary, learned patterns of movement

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Functions of Muscle Tissue

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  • Body movement (In association with the skeleton)
  • Stabilizing the body
  • Standing upright
  • Regulating movement (Sphincter muscles)
  • Moving substances within the body (Peristalsis)
  • Generating heat (Shivering)
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Properties of Muscle Tissue

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  • Contractility: Contract and maintain tension
  • Extensibility: Stretch without damage
  • Elasticity: Return to original length
  • Electrical excitability: Electric signals like a nerve cells
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Anatomy of a Muscle (Big to Small structures)

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Tendon (connects muscle to skeleton), epimysium (outer layer of connective tissue muscle), fascicle (bundles of muscle cells/fibers), perimysium (connective tissue around a fascicle), muscle fiber (cell), myofibril

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Anatomy of a Muscle (Fascicle)

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Perimysium (membrane around a fascicle), endomysium (connective tissue around a muscle fiber, inside a fascicle)

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Tendon

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Connects a muscle to the skeleton

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Epimysium

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Outer layer of connective tissue surrounding a muscle

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Fascicle

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Bundles of muscle cells/fibers

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Perimysium

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Connective tissue around a fascicle

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Muscle Fiber

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Basic functional unit of muscle tissue

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Endomysium

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Connective tissue around a muscle fiber, inside a fascicle

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Sarcomere

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The basic unit of a muscle

Consists of z discs, m line, I bands, A band, and H zone

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Anatomy of a Muscle (Muscle Fiber)

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Sarcolemma (cell membrane), myofibril (bundles of sarcomere’s), filaments

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Sarcomere (Structure)

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Thick Filament: Myosin
Thin Filament: Actin, troponin, and tropomyosin
Structural Proteins: Titin, myomesin

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Muscle proteins

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Myosin
Actin
Troponin
Tropomyosin
Titin
Myomesin
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Myosin

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Contractile protein in thick filament. Has myosin heads and tails to attach to actin

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Actin

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Contractile protein in thin filament

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Troponin

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Regulatory protein in thin filament

Regulates when the muscle contracts and relaxes

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Tropomyosin

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Regulatory protein in thin filament

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Titin

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Structural protein; stretching (“springs”)

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Myomesin

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M line; structural protein

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Thin filaments

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Consists of actin, troponin, and tropomyosin

  • Actin has the binding site for the myosin head
  • Troponin and tropomyosin regulate the binding of the myosin heads
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Fused Tetanus

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Muscles completely contracted

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Motor Unit

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Lets you control how strong contractions are

Activates muscle fibers, each motor neuron activates a different group of motor units

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Muscle Fibers

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Three very different fibers: slow oxidative, fast oxidative, and fast glycolytic

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Slow Oxidative Fibers

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Thin, aerobic, slow twitch, many capillaries
Myoglobin: protein in the muscle that stores oxygen
Resistant to fatigue, do not build up waste piles

i.e. endurance muscles, repeated motion

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Fast Oxidative Fibers

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Medium thickness, aerobic, fast twitch
Many capillaries, myoglobin, high glycogen
Moderate resistance to fatigue

Middle ground type, between endurance and sprinting

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Fast Glycolytic Fibers

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Very thick, anaerobic, fast, powerful twitch
High glycogen, few capillaries, and myoglobin
Fatigues easily

i.e. Sprinters, powerful

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Smooth Muscle (Structure)

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Intermediate filaments, sarcomeres connected to dense bodies, not always in the same direction
Sarcomeres are organized differently

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Smooth Muscle Physiology

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Sliding filament contraction

  • Slow, long lasting contractions
  • Contracts further and stretches further
  • Ca++ diffusion is slow
  • No T tubules, and very little SR