Exam 2; Muscle, Cardiovascular, and Lymphatic System (PP) Flashcards
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What are the characteristics, functions, locations, and component structures associated with skeletal muscle?
A. Consists of striated cells called myofibers.
B. Produces voluntary movement by attaching to bone.
What are the characteristics, functions, locations, and component structures associated with cardiac muscle?
A. Cardiac muscle is founds only in the walls of the heart.
B. Cardiac muscle is striated but involuntary.
C. Cells in cardiac muscle include myocytes, cardiomyocytes, and cardiocytes.
What are the characteristics, functions, locations, and component structures associated with smooth muscle?
A. No striations in smooth muscle since contractile proteins are not arranged the same way as others.
B. Contains cells called myocytes which are short and fusiform (tapered at ends)
C. Smooth muscle is involuntary.
Describe microscopic anatomy of skeletal muscle.
Describe the mechanism in which muscle contracts.
Skeletal muscle contracts only when stimulated by a somatic motor neuron. Nerve and muscle fiber meet at a complex of synapses called a neuromuscular junction. Each tip of the nerve fiber has a synaptic knob nestled into the sarcolemma. The synaptic knob contains NT acetylcholine which stimulates muscle fibers to contract. Acetylcholinesterase is the enzyme that breaks down Ach to terminate muscle fiber stimulation.
What is the association between skeletal muscle and connective tissue (ie: fascia)?
Describe microscopic anatomy of cardiac muscle.
Striated, short, stumpy, branched cells, intercalated discs with gap junctions. Typically mononucleated.
Describe microscopic anatomy of smooth muscle.
No striations, small, fusiform, cell with one nucleus, dense bodies link cytoskeleton and membrane. Involuntary control.
What is myology?
Myology is the study of the muscular system. The term muscular system only refers to skeletal muscle.
Describe the structure of a muscle fiber.
Muscle is organized into muscle fascicles all individually separated by CT called perimysium. Each fascicle have several muscle fibers separated by CT called endomysium. Each muscle fiber is an elongated cell with several nuclei. In each muscle fiber, there are myofibrils made of sarcomeres. Sarcomeres are the basic functional unit of muscle. Between myofibrils, there is lots of mitochondria, and smooth ER called sarcoplasmic reticulum here.
The sarcoplasm of like the cytoplasm of the muscle and contains glycogen and myoglobin.
What are the thick myofilaments made of?
Myosin protein.
What are the thin myofilaments made of?
Actin protein.
Fibrous and globular actin.
How are tropomyosin and troponin involved in muscle contraction?
Tropomyosin blocks the active site (myosin binding to globular actin) when muscle is relaxed. Troponin attaches to tropomyosin and binds calcium when excited.
What are the different striations within muscle?
A band- dark stripe of thick myofilaments that overlap thin myofilaments.
H band- central region of A band that is lighter due to lack of thin myofilaments.
I band- light stripe of thin myofilaments only.
Z disc- midline of I band. The region from Z disc to Z disc is called a sarcomere.
Which of the following muscles of facial expression is represented by ‘B’?
Orbicularis Oculi
Which of the following connective tissue layer covers an individual muscle cell?
Endomysium
Identify the muscle of mastication indicated by ‘A’?
Temporalis
What is the structural/ functional unit of skeletal muscle involved in contraction?
Sarcomere
Identify the muscle ‘B’.
Rectus Abdominus
Which muscle type exhibits intercalated discs?
Cardiac
Identify muscle ‘E’.
Erector spinae
Which labeled structure would be the suprahyoid muscles of the neck?
C
Which of these muscle types is not under the control of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?
Skeletal
Which of the following muscle types exhibits rythmicity?
Smooth and cardiac muscle