Final Exam Flashcards
Muscular sys consists of 3 types of muscle called
cardiac, smooth, and skeletal
What is the most abundant tissue in the human body?
skeletal muscle, and is about 40-45% of total body weight
Skeletal muscle provides 5 things
Strength stability protection for the skeleton enable bones to move provide stabilization for body posture against gravity
Skel muscles perform both
dynamic and static work (on test asshole)
Sarcomere
structural unit of skeletal muscle, a multinucleated muscle cell or fiber
muscle fiber thickness
10-100um
muscle fiber length
1-30 cm
Muscle fibers consist of
myofibrils
sarcomeres in series:
basic contractile unit of muscle
Myofibrils consist of myofilaments called:
actin, myosin, troponin, and tropomysin, and Titin/convexin
Sarcomere composite lines
z line to z line ~= 1.27 - 3.6 um in length
thin filament of sarcomere is what and size
actin: 5nm in diameter
thick filaments and size
myosin: 15 nm in diameter
What is the largest structure protein in the body called
Titin/convexin
Titin does what? and may have what?
anchors myosin filament to Z-line may have crossbridge sites
Myofilaments in parallel w/
sarcomere
Sarcomeres in series within
myofibrils
What is the contractile unit of the muscle cell?
sarcomere including the connective tissue aka the-ysiums
What is the contractile unit of the muscle cell?
sarcomere including the connective tissue aka the-ysiums
Motor Unit
functional unit of muscle contraction
motor unit is composed of
motor neuron and all muscle cells (fibers) innervated by motor neuron
motor unit follows what principle which is what
all or none principle- impulse from motor neuron will contraction in all muscle fibers it innervates or none at all
Based on the size principle, what is recruited first?
the smallest motor units recruited first aka type I
Blank are recruited with lower stimulation frequencies
small motor untis, doesnt take long to turn on