Exam 3 Flashcards
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What are the three types of Muscle?
- Skeletal
- Cardiac
- Smooth
What are the characteristics of all muscle tissue
- Excitability:ability to change membrane potential
- Contractibility: ability to shorten
- Extensibility: Ability to stretch
- Elasticity: ability to recoil to original length
What are the functions of muscle tissue?
Produce movement
Maintain posture
stabilize joints
generate heat
Longest muscle cells, attached to the skeleton, striated, voluntary
Skeletal muscle
Only in the heart, striated, involuntary
Cardiac
In the walls of hollow visceral organs, no striations, involuntary
Smooth
All Muscle tissue has what?
Muscle fibers
Blood vessels
Nerve Fibers
Connective tissue
Covering that surround the whole muscle (dense irregular connective tissue)
Epimysium
A group of muscle fibers.
Fascicle
What is skeletal muscle made of
Multiple fascicles
Covering around fascicle (dense irregular connective tissue)
Perimysium
Connective tissue that surrounds each muscle fiber
Endomysium
Long, cylindrical, and multinucliate
Muscle fibers (muscle cells)
What is the plasma membrane of muscle fibers called
Sarcolemma
What are the characteristics of sarcoplasm that makes it different compared to the cytoplasm
- Has a large amount of glycogen in glycosomes
- has Myoglobin which is unique to muscle fibers but similar to hemoglobin (Stores Oxygen in muscle cells)
- Contains myofibrils alongside the usual organelles
What are contractile elements of muscle cells
Myofibrils
What makes up 80% of muscle cell volume?
Myofibrils
Why is skeletal muscle striated?
Because of Actin + Myosin
Made from repeating series of dark A bands and light I bands
Striations
Lighter stripe in middle of A band (relaxed muscle)
H Zone
Skeletal muscle are also referred to as
Muscle Fibers
Which of the following is most associated with the attachments formed between muscles and bones
- Epimysium
- Endomysium
- Perimysium
Epimysium
Which of the following is the smallest strucutral unit
- Myofibril
- sarcomere
- Myofilament
- Fascicle
- Muscle fiber
Myofilament
_____ is chiefly composed of the protein myosin that forms thick filaments
A band