BIO120: vocab for final Flashcards
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Skeletal muscle tissue
Striated or not
Voluntary or not
Location
Striated
Voluntary
Attached to bones
Cardiac muscle tissue
-Striated or not
Voluntary or not
-Location
- Striated
- Involuntary
- Heart
Smooth muscle tissue
- Striated or not
- Voluntary or not
- Location
-Nonstriated
-Involuntary
GI tract (digestion)
Functions of muscular tissue
Producing body movements
Stabilizing body positions
Moving substances within the body
Generating heat
Properties that enable muscle to function and contribute to homeostasis
Excitability
Contractility
Extensibility
Elasticity
Layers of muscle tissue
Epimysium
Perimysium
Endomysium
Epimysium
Outer layer of muscle tissue
Perimysium
Surrounds groups of muscle fibers separating them into groups called fascicles
Fascicles
Muscle fiber groups surrounded by the Perimysium
Endomysium
Inner layer of each fascicle and separates individual muscle fibers from one another
Tendon
attaches muscle to bone
Aponeurosis
Broad, flattened tendon
Muscle growth occurs by _________
Hypertrophy
What hormones cause muscle growth
Testosterone, human growth hormone
Sacromeres
Basic functional unit of a microfifbril
Contractile proteins
Myosin
Actin
Myosin
-What it looks like
Projections of each Myosin molecule protrude outward (myosin head) looks like a golf club
Actin
-Function
Provide a site where the Myosin head can attach
Structural proteins
Titin
Dystrophin
Titin (function)
Helps with stabilizing, extensibility, alignment
Dystrophin (function)
Very elastic. Helps muscle retain its shape
What is the main neurotransmitter and why is it so important
ACh
Muscle cannot move without it
The bacterium Clostridium botulinum (botulism) produces________
Botulinum toxin
What does Botulinum toxin do
What medicine is it used for
Blocks release of ACh from synaptic vesicles (therefore muscles cannot move)
Botox