In Module Muscle Flashcards
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everything that our mind conceives were being translated into actions through skeletal muscle contractions.
Movement
with proper tone, muscles helps us to maintain posture through a steady or constant state of partial contraction.
Maintenance of posture
the main muscle for bathing is the diaphragm. With its contraction, it allows air to enter the lungs. Moreover, other muscles of the thorax carry out the movements necessary for respiration.
Respiration
When skeletal muscles contract, heat is given off as a by-product. This released heat is critical to the maintenance of body temperature.
Production of heat
Skeletal muscles are involved in all aspects of communication, including speaking, writing, typing, gesturing, and facial expressions.
Communication
The contraction of smooth muscle within the walls of internal organs and vessels causes those structures to constrict. can help propel and mix food and water in the digestive tract, propel secretions from organs and regulate blood flow through vessels.
Constriction of organs and vessels
The contraction of cardiac muscle causes the heart to beat propelling blood to all parts of the body.
Contraction of the heart
Muscular tissue is composed of elongated muscle cells
Muscle fibers
to generate force, which produces motion, maintains posture, and generates heat.
Muscular tissue
striated (banded); cells are large, long, and cylindrical, with many nuclei, Movement of the body voluntary control
Skeletal muscle
muscle cells are tapered at each end, are not striated, and have
a single nucleus
Function
Regulates the size of organs, forces
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amount of light entering the eye and produces “goose bumps” in the skin; under involuntary
unconscious control
Smooth
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contain gap junctions
Cardiac muscle
specialized GAP JUNCTIONS helps in coordinating contractions.
Cardiac muscle has striations and contracts involuntarily.
structure.
Intercalated dics
It is a longest type of muscle, make up to 40% of body weight. It is named because of its attachment to bones.
Skeletal muscle
What are the Skeletal muscle four major functional characteristics
contractility,
excitability,
extensibility,
elasticity.
shorten with force
Contractility
respond to stimulus
Excitability
stretched to its normal resting length and beyond to a limited degree.
Extensibility
to recoil to original resting length after stretched
Elasticity
surrounds the entire skeletal muscle
Epimysium
around each muscle fasciculus (bundle o muscle fibers)
Sheath of connective tissue encasing fascicles
Perimysium
tissue that surrounds each muscle fiber
Endomysium
Muscle Fiber Structure:
thread-like proteins
Myofibril
proteins that make up myofibrils (ex. actin and myosin)
Myofilament