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During development, all 3 types of muscle originate from where?

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Somatic mesoderm

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What migrates out of the somatic mesodermal germ layer to form muscle fibers

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Myoblasts

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Differentiation of myoblasts into their cell fate and what are believed to be highly correlated?

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Cell lineage

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Coelomic Graft model was used for?

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To investigate whether muscle type differentiation is determined by myoblast cell lineage, independent of external influences

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What is the coelom?

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Body cavity formed during embryonic development when mesoderm is split into two layers

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Satellite cells indicates that cell lineage is not as strong a determinant for what muscle type

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Skeletal muscle type

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Satellite cells are found where?

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Between the basal lamina and plasma membrane

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How are satellite cells activated?

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After muscle injury or intensive exercise

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Satellite cells fuse to what and why?

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Fuse to themselves to create new muscle fibers or fuse to damaged muscle fibers to repair damage

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A satellite cell can transform itself into a muscle fiber of what type?

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Fast or slow MyHC isoforms

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Nerve-evoked electrical activity is an external signal that can (-) muscle phenotype

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Change

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When a nerve from a fast muscle is transplanted into a slow muscle and vice versa —

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Both re-innervated, muscles change phenotype

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Type I motor units, receive (-) amounts of impulses delivered in (-) frequency sequences

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High, low

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Type II motor units, receive (-) amounts of impulses delivered in (-) frequency sequences

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Low, high

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Slow-to-fast muscle phenotype change

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Difficult, or impossible

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Fast-to-slow muscle phenotype change

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Easy, possible

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Why is it difficult to go from slow-to fast muscle phenotype?

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The amount of background activity will dominate

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Depolarization leads to what in muscle?

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Shortening or mechanical tension

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What is possibly more important for muscle activity? Neural or action potential?

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Neural

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20
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Can muscles heal after atrophy?

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Yes

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Changes in muscle usage will lead to what?

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Changes in muscle phenotype

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Factors that can serve as messengers for muscle activity

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  • Free intracellular Ca
  • Metabolites
  • hypoxia
  • tension
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Regulation of force is a question of what?

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Regulating fiber size

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Size can be achieved by regulating three conditions that are?

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  • number of nuclei
  • rate of protein synthesis
  • rate of protein degradation
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Hypertrophy is generally accompanied by:
Addition of new nuclei
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How are new nuclei created in muscle cells?
Satellite cells fusing with pre-existing muscle fiber
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What is myostatin?
Member of the trans-transforming growth factor B (superfamily)
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Myostatin function
Role during development where it acts as inhibitor of muscle growth
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Disruption of the myostatin gene leads to
Development of grossly enlarged muscles, increase in number of fibers and fiber size
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Activity is regulated by IGF-binding proteins acting as carriers in blood, or locally binding IGF-I to the extracellular matrix describes what?
Insulin-like growth factor I
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What organ supplies 75% of circulating IGF-I
Liver
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What factor has been implicated as a factor promoting hypertrophy
IGF-1
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IGF-1 function
- increase myotube diameter - suppress proteolysis - stimulate protein synthesis - induce higher number of nuclei - promote myoblast synthesis
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Hormone for muscles
Testosterone
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What is the structure where axonal branches of a motor neuron form contact to a group of target muscle fibers within a single motor unit through presynaptic buttons
Motor end-plate
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There is one somatic motor neuron per (-)
One motor unit
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Muscles for fine control have (greater, fewer) muscle fibers per motor unit
Fewer
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There are/is (multiple, one) muscle fibers per motor unit
Multiple
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Axonal branches from presynaptic motor neuron form swellings that occupy depression of the muscle fiber are
Presynaptic buttons
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Is there direct contact between presynaptic button and the postsynaptic terminal
No
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Synaptic button that occupies a depression is known as
Primary synaptic cleft
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Sarcolemma of the muscle fiber that forms the infolding deep junctional fold is what?
Secondary synaptic cleft
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What kind of synapse if the neuromuscular junction?
Chemical Synapse
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What separates the presynaptic button and the postsynaptic terminal?
Synaptic clefts
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Synaptic vesicles are derived from the what?
Neuronal soma (cell body)
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What step is: acetylcholine is enclosed by synaptic vesicles and transported by kinesin along the axon by anterograde axonal transport
Step 1 in synaptic transmission within the neuromuscular junction of the skeletal muscle
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What is a neuromuscular junction?
A chemical synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber
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Acetylcholine is enclosed by the membrane-bound (-)
Synaptic vesicles
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Where are synaptic vesicles located where?
Presynaptic terminals
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Molecular motor proteins are what?
Kinesin
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What is the highway of the axon?
Microtubule of the axon
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What step is: depolarization of the axon terminal activates the voltage-gated Ca channels, increase in Ca induces exocytosis of synaptic vesicles, releasing ACh?
Step 2
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Vesicular docking proteins are found where?
Synaptic vesicles
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What do vesicular docking proteins allow synaptic vesicles to do?
Attach at the presynaptic terminals rich in membrane docking proteins
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Depolarization triggers (influx, or efflux) of Ca
Influx
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Increase in Ca concentration induces what?
Exocytosis of synaptic vesicles and releasing ACh
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What step is AChE terminates the signal by hydrolyzing Ach into forming choline and acetyl CoA?
Step 3
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How can Ach be enzymatically degraded and where?
In the synaptic cleft by acetylcholinesterase (AChE)
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Where is AChE found?
Located in the post-synaptic membranes
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Hydrolyzing ACh forms what?
Choline and acetyl CoA
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Choline can be re-uptaked back to pre-synaptic terminal and recycled back into forming (-) by (-)?
ACh by Choline acetyltransferase
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Kinesin-mediated that carries cargos from axon terminal toward soma are (anterograde, retrograde)
Anterograde
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Dynein-mediated that carries cargos from axon terminal toward soma are (anterograde, retrograde)
Retrograde
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Axonal transport requires 3 things:
- axonal cytoskeleton - motor proteins (kinesin and dynein) - hydrolysis of ATP
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What are the 2 motor proteins?
Kinesin and dynein
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Anterograde transport of vesicles and mitochondria is mediated by what?
Kinesin
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Retrograde transport of a vesicle along a microtubule is mediated by what?
Dynein
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Rabies virus is a neurotropic virus that is able to infect what?
Nerve cells
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Rabies virus is capable of binding to the (-) and replicates in the (-)
Acetylcholine receptor, muscle tissue
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The viral rabies particle migrated by (-) to the (-)
retrograde axonal transport to the cell body of neurons supplying affected muscle
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Does rabies virus continue to replicate within infected neurons? Where does this occur?
Yes, in the CNS
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Rabies virus is transported by (-) by the peripheral nerves to the (-)
Anterograde axonal transport, salivary glands
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How is rabies transported?
Transmitted by the bite
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A potent neurotoxin produced by clostridium tetani is what?
Tetanus
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Tetanus uses (-) to enter the (-)
Retrograde axonal transport to enter the CNS
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What does tetanus cause?
Spasm contraction of jaw, exaggerated reflexes, respiratory failure
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Tetanus blocks the release of (-) a the spinal synapse
Inhibitory mediators
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Varicella zoster causes
Chicken pox and shingles
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Zoster virus enter the nerve body using (retrograde, anterograde) axonal transport and stay (-) in the nerves
Retrograde, dormant
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Zoster virus reactivated by (-) and uses (anterograde, retrograde) axonal transport to move to nerve ending
Stress, anterograde
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Shingles starts at the muscle and then is transported to the skin (T/F)
True
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Curare produces what symptoms?
Muscle paralysis
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Curare bind to Ach receptor and prevents binding of Ach to the (-)
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are located where?
Postsynaptic membrane
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Botulinum toxin is an exotoxin that prevents the release of (-) at the (-)
Acetylcholine at the presynaptic terminal
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Botulinum toxin produces what symptoms?
Muscle paralysis and dysfunction of the autonomous nervous system
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Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease with antibodies against (-) which
Ach receptors which prevent binding of Ach to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
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Myasthenia gravis symptoms
Muscle weakness
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome is an autoimmune disease with antibodies against (-)
Voltage-gated Ca channels
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome reduces (-) into intracellular space
Calcium
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome symptoms
Muscle weakness

CPPS 302 (14 decks)

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