Chap 10: Muscles Flashcards
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Functions of skeletal muscle
- Body movement
- Maintenance of posture
- Temperature regulation (shivering)
- Storage and movement of materials
- Support
Properties of muscle tissue:
- excitability
- Contractility
- Elasticity
- Extensibility- extra stretch
Gross anatomy of skeletal muscle:
Named muscle Fascicle Muscle fiber(cell) Myofibril Myofilaments
Epimysium:
Layer of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds the entire skeletal muscle.
Perimysium:
Surrounds fascicles
Dense irregular connective tissue
Contains an array of supportive blood vessels and nerves
Endomysium
Innermost connective tissue layer
Areolar connective tissue
Surrounding and electrically insulating muscle fibers
Deep fascia:
Dense irregular connective tissue
Binds together muscles with similar functions
*extra layer around epimysium
Superficial fascia:
Areolar & adipose
Between muscle and bone- connects to the skin.
-spiderweb like
Tendon
Muscle to bone
Aponeurosis
Tendon in a thin flattened sheet
Origin
Less mobile attachment of the muscle
-usually more proximal, medial, and bigger area
Insertion:
More mobile attachment if the muscle
- distal lighter area
Skeletal muscles are ________ muscles
Voluntary
Motor neurons
Nerve cells that innervate muscle cels and stimulate muscle contraction
*only one axon touched a muscle
Neuromuscular junction
Connection between nerve axon and muscle fiber
- neurotransmitter released over the synapse
Sacrolemma:
Plasma membrane of a skeletal muscle fiber
Sacroplasm:
Cytoplasm of the muscle fiber
Contains mitochondria to meet high energy demands
Transverse tubules: t- tubules
Carry nerve impulses from sacrolemma and rapidly spread it internally
*mine shafts into muscle fibers
Sacroplasmic reticulum (SR)
Similar to smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- stores calcium ions needed for muscle contraction
- calcium is critical to the muscle contractions
Terminal cisternae:
Blind sacs of SR located in pairs
Reservoirs for calcium ions
Thin filaments:
Actin protein- twisted around each other
Twizzler like
Tropomyosin:
Short thin twisted filament that covers small sections of the actin strands
-like a hair twisted around a Twizzler
Troponin
Attaches to actin and tropomyosin
Provides a binding site for calcium ions
-nerd on top of hair on top of Twizzler
Thick filaments:
Twice as large as thin filaments
MYOSIN - two strands, free globular heads- “gimme” hands for troponin binding sites