Muscle Tissue Flashcards
Cardiac muscle blood supply
-receives extensive blood supply through a network of capillaries
F-actin
-double-stranded helical filament (composed of G-actin)
Sarcomere characteristics
- portion of a myofibril between two adjacent Z-disks
- basic contractile unit of skeletal muscle
- measures 2-3 microns
- sarcomere of individual myofibrils are in register in one muscle fiber, so the entire muscle cell exhibits cross-striations.
Smooth muscle contraction
- driven by the high Ca++ concentration in the sarcoplasm
- relaxed muscle cells the highest concentration of Ca++ is in the sarcoplasmic reticulum
Smooth muscle fibers in the dermis of the skin
-attached to the hair follicles and form so called arrectores pilorum muscles
Troponin T binds to?
-binds to tropomyosin, anchoring the Troponin complex
T-tubular system
- formed by deep invaginations of the sarcolemma
- allow the impulse to travel down into the cell and excite the terminal cisternae of the sarcoplasmic reticulum
Lateral portion of intercalated disks
- runs parallel to the myofilaments
- contains communication, of gap junctions that provide ionic continuity b/t adjacent cardiac muscle cells and allow the signal to contract to pass from cell to cell and generate a wave of contraction
I-band
- pale area formed primarily by thin filaments
- proteins such as Titian and nebulin are also found in the I-band
- is bisected by the Z-line (Z-disk)
Fascicles
-formed by connective tissue sheath
Reticular fibers of smooth
-important role in the force transduction in the smooth muscle tissue
Myoglobin
- an oxygen-binding protein
- gives muscle it’s red color. May store glycogen. DM pt’s can lower sugar by working out
2 principle components of myofibril
-thick and thin filaments
Excitation of smooth muscle
- neural stimulation occurs through the postganglionic fibers of the autonomic nervous system
- neurotransmitter is released in the close proximity of a muscle cell and has to diffuse to the muscle sells through the CT that surrounds the muscle cells
- impulse transmission from cell to cell occurs through gap junctions
Nuclei of smooth muscle
- centrally placed and long (cigar-shaped) with tapered ends
* similar looking to fibroblasts
What does conductivity allow muscle cells to do?
-allows muscle cells to transmit electrical impulse to other cells and to receive impulses from nerve cells.
Two pairs of Myosin II light chains?
- attach to the heads.
- they are essential and regulatory (structural support)
Organization of skeletal muscles
-consist of fascicles or bundles of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by a connective tissue sheath
Ex. Biceps->fascicles->skeletal muscle fiber (cell)->myofibril->myofilaments (thin/thick)
Nuclei of skeletal muscle cells?
- are peripheral in location and are found immediately beneath the sarcolemma.
- are peripheral because they are pushed near sarcolemma by myofibrils. This is unique to skeletal muscle
Gower’s sign
Trendelenburg (waddling) gait
- use forelimbs to push off hindlimbs to erect pelvis and upper body.
- variation of muscle fibers
- CT taking up place of fibers (endomysial)
- nuclei in abundance means inflammation
- numerous macrophages
Signs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Troponin C binds to?
- binds to Ca++, which is an essential step in the initiation of the muscular contraction.
- smallest subunit
What 3 things does sarcoplasm of skeletal muscle cells contain?
- numerous myofibrils (found inside of fibers)
- numerous filamentous mitochondria
- myoglobin
Thick filament are formed by?
- formed by hundreds of myosin molecules.
- Myosin II molecules is the muscle myosin
Skeletal muscle contraction
- resting muscle cell, myosin-binding site on the actin filament is concealed by tropomyosin filament
- Presence of high concentration of Ca++ ions, Ca++ binds to Troponin C
- Changes the spatial configuration of the Troponin molecule and causes the tropomyosin filament to shift->opens myosin-binding site on the actin filament
- Myosin starts “walking” along the actin fibers
- Myosin uses ATP to slide the actin along, myosin is an ATPase
How is a skeletal muscle fiber (skeletal muscle cell) formed?
-“cells” of the skeletal muscle is actually a multinucleated syncytium.
Syncytium is cytoplasm that is shared
-takes a long time and a lot of effort to repair
Thick filament (smooth)
-formed by Myosin II
Troponin I binds to?
-binds to actin inhibiting the interaction with myosin
Mechanical stimulation of smooth
-passive stretching of the organ, can lead to the initiation of a muscular contraction
Long-term contraction of smooth muscle
-secondary mechanism that requires minimum energy
Satellite cells
- after injury they become activated, proliferate and give rise to new myoblasts, which fuse to from a new fiber
- extensive damage results in the formation of a CT scar
6 types of accessory proteins found in the skeletal muscle
- Titin (thick)
- Myomesin (thick)
- Alpha-Actinin
- Nebulin
- Desmin
- Dystrophin
Arrangement of microfibrils
- composed of thin and thick filaments
- thin (actin) filaments are arranged in a hexagonal array with 6 thin filaments surrounding 1 thick (myosin) filament
Depolarized membrane of sarcolemma
- develops a positive membrane potential when it becomes more permeable for Na+ ions
- depolarization of membrane of muscle cell starts a cascade of reactions that cause muscular contraction
Epimyseum
- most external thick layer of connective tissue that surrounds a group of fascicles that constitutes a named muscle
- dense CT collagen type 1
Filamentous mitochondria location and function?
- lie between myofibrils and close to the sarcolemma.
- represent the source of ATP for the myofibrils
Adherens junctions (fasciae adherentes) of transverse portion of intercalated disks
- connect the microfilaments of the two neighboring cardiac muscle cells.
- similar to the zonula adherentes found in the epithelial cells
Myofibril
- make up skeletal muscle fiber.
- extend the whole length of the muscle fiber.
- individual myofibril is striated
Dystrophin
-membrane-associated protein complex that links actin cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix stabilizing the thin filaments
Myomesin
-holds the thick filaments in register at the M-line
Note: M-line runs through the middle of the H-zone
M-line
-line formed by accessory proteins, such as myomesin that hold the thick filaments in register
Nebulin
- attached to the Z-disk and runs parallel to thin filaments.
- anchor the thin filaments and to regulate the length of thin filaments during muscular fiber development
T-tubules of cardiac muscles
- large and found at the Z-disks and not at the junction of A and I bands like skeletal muscle fibers
- contraction is Ca++ dependent and similar to contraction of skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle origin?
-originate from myoblasts (myocytes line up) that fuse with each other to form long multinucleated postmitotic myotubes
What causes muscle contractility?
- actin
- myosin
- ATP
Skeletal muscle that is attached to bone function
primarily for locomotion, respiration, and other functions
Latch state of smooth muscle
- caused by the decrease of ATP activity while the myosin head is attached to actin
- causes prolonged contraction used to sustain the tone of blood vessels
- condition resembles the rigor Morris of the skeletal muscle