Mid term Flashcards
(234 cards)
What is the secondary regulator of cross bridge cycling and may also control the length of the thin filament with tropomyosin?
Caldesmon
What works with tropomyosin and also is a secondary regulator of the crossbridge cycle?
Calponin
Tropomyosin works with ________, to INCREASE the activity of myosin ATPase?
Calponin
Tropomyosin works with _________, to decrease the rate of contraction?
Caldesmon
How much myosin is found in smooth muscle compared to skeletal muscle?
about 1/4
Nitriic oxide synthase splits _________ into ________ and _________
Arginine; NO; Citrulline
NO is an __________ and acts via the ___________ mechanism
Inhibitor; cGMP
Prostacyclin (PGI2) is derived from arachidonic acid via what enzyme?
cyclo-oxygenase
This neurotransmitters is hypothesized to be the major vasodilator and works by opening K+ channels, allowing it to leave the cell, thus hyperpolarizing the cell and preventing contraction
EDHF (endothelial derived hyperpolarizing factor)
This receptor only binds ET-1
ET-A receptor
This receptor binds all 3 endothelins
ET-B receptor
Explain the cascade that happens after ET-1 binds the ET-A receptor
1) Activation of G proteins
2) Production of PKC and IP3
3) release of Ca from the smooth muscle S.R.
4) Contraction of smooth muscle
What kind of effects are caused by an endothelin binding to an ET-B receptor?
trophic effects
neurotransmitters are released from what structures on the neuron when communicating with smooth muscle
varicosities
Adenosine causes what?
relaxation
Blood vessels arise from coalescence of hemangioblasts which aris from blood islands (large blood vessels develop this way)
Vasculogenesis
Vessel formation via branches arising from existing vessels
angiogenesis
Early vasulogenesis (week 3) begins where then formation moves where?
extraembryonic mesoderm around the yolk sack; lateral plate mesoderm
These cells are what are inside the blood islands and can differentiate into 2 populations of cells?
hemangioblasts
What 2 populations can hemangioblasts become?
Endothelial cells (angioblasts) hematopoietic stem cells
What causes the mesoderm cells to initially start to divide?
-this makes it a mitogen
FGF2
VEGF binds to VEGF-R2 (Flk1) to cause hemangioblasts to become what?
hemangioblasts (homatopoetic stem cells)
VEGF binds to VEGF-R1 (Flt1) to cause what?
hemangioblasts to become the tube (angioblasts)
What signals to express VEGF, which upregulates the VEGF receptor FLK1?
HOXB5