Chapter 5: Muscle Function & Structure Flashcards

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Three types of muscles that exists in the body

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Smooth
Cardiac
Skeletal

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Skeletal Muscle

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Connects the various parts of the muscles through connective tissues called tendons

Voluntary control

Can be graded

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Smooth Muscle

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Located in the blood vessels, iris, respiratory tract, gastrointensitinal tract

Involuntary

Fatigue resistant

Contractions are slow and controlled

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Cardiac muscles

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Helps contractile activity of heart

Very fatigue resistant

Involuntary

Can be graded

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5
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Component of Skeletal Muscle

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A: muscle belly
B: muscle fibre bundle
C: muscle fibre
D: myofibrils

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Muscle teamwork terms

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Agonist
Antagonist
Synergist
Fixators

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Agonists

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Producing desired activity

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Antagonists

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Opposing the activity

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9
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Synergistes

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Muscles surrounding joint that help the movement

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Fixators

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Steady joints closer to the axis

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Sarcomers

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Contractile units within the myofibrils

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Sarcomeres are made up of 2 protein filaments

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Actin-thin

Myosin-thick

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Myosin

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Each myosin is surrounded by 6 actin filaments

Projecting from each myosin and tiny contractile myosin bridges

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14
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Cross bridge formation

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Signal comes from motor nerve to motor end plate activating the fibre

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15
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Cross bridge movement

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Rowing and oar like motion

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16
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Optimal cross bridge formation

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Sarcomeres should be an optimal distance apart

17
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If sarcomeres are stretched to far apart

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Less force, because there will be fewer cross bridges

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If sarcomeres are too close together

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Less force, don’t have enough room thus interpreting with each other as there formed

19
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Optimal muscle length & optimal joint angle

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Maximum muscle occurs with optimal muscle length & at optimal joint angle

Optimal joint angle occurs at optimal muscle length

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The distance between sarcomeres if dépendant on

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Stretch of muscle and and the position of the joint

21
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Genetically predetermined muscle fibre types

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Slow twitch
Oxidative(type 1)

Fast twitch
Glycolitic(type 2)

22
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Slow twitch muscle fibres

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Suite for activity’s with >20-24% of force output

Low power, high endurance

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Fast twitch

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High power, low endurance

24
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Muscle biopsy on the microscope

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Capillaries blood vessels look like black dots

Oxidative look red

Glycolitic look white

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Muscle biopsy procedure
Method used to determine muscle fibre type
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Nerve-muscle interaction
Skeletal muscle is infuriated through neural activation
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Our nervous systems:
Central and peripheral
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Terms of function of nervous system
Sensory And Motor
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Sensory
Collects info from sensors and takes it to the brain
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Motor
Conducts signals to activate muscle
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Motor unit
Group of fibres activated via the same nerve All muscle fibres of one unit are the same kind
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Muscle need to preform precise movements consist of more
Motor units and less muscle fibres
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Muscles needing to preform less precise movements require
Less motor units and many fibres per unit
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All or none principal
An impulse of certain magnitude or strength is required to get the fibres to contract
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Intra muscle coordination
Capacity to apply motor units simultaneously
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Inter muscle coordination
Interpret between agonist and antagonist muscles
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Muscles adaptation to strength
Individual performance occurs through biological adaptations Adaptations depends on activity level and athletes genetic makeup