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What are the characteristics of skeletal muscle?

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Voluntary control
Striated
Single long cylindrical cells
Multiple peripheral nuclei

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What are the characteristics of caridac muscle?

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Only in heart
Striated
Branched with 1 - 3 central nuclei (variable)
Connected via intercalated discs
Involuntary control
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What are the characteristics of smooth muscle?

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Involuntary
Found the wall of internal organs
Spindle shaped (fat middle, thin ends)
Uni-nucleated
Not striated
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What is the structure of skeletal muscle?

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Attached to bones via tendons
The fibres can be long (up to 35cm)
Reasonably wide (.1mm)
Composed of fibrils containing highly organised contractile filaments
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What are the components of a sarcomere (myofibril)?

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Thin actin filaments
Thick myosin filaments
Z discs (anchoring point)

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What are the areas of a sarcomere?

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H zone (Exclusively thick filaments)
M line (Thick filaments are joined)
A band (thick and thin filaments)
I band (thin filaments)
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What is the T tubule?

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Tunnels continuous with the sarcolemma into the cell at A and I bands, full of extracellular fluid, exposing the fibres to APs etc.

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What is the Sarcoplasma Reticulum?

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Calcium storage site, the terminal cisternae lie close to the T tubules.

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What is the Sarcolemma?

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Surrounds the cell, has holes for T tubules

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Structure of thick filaments?

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Myosin
Made out of two subunits
Has a head and a tail, the two tails form a helix
Heads having a binding site for actin
The head is an enzyme that hydrolyses ATP

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Thin filaments

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Primarily globular actin proteins
Filaments are a double stranded helical actin chain
Troponin and tropomyosin are regulatory proteins associated with actin in cardiac and skeletal muscle

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What is the sliding filament theory?

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The sarcomere shortens as the thin filaments are pulled over the thick filaments.
Z-line is pulled towards the M-line
The I band and the H zone become narrower

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Which areas don’t change in contraction?

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M line and A band

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Which areas change during contraction?

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Z discs and I band

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What are the steps of the cross bridge cycle?

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  1. Cross-bridge formation (Actin-Myosin)
  2. Power stroke (ADP and Pi released)
  3. Detachement (New ATP)
  4. Energisation of mysoin head (ATP to ADP + Pi)
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Why must calcium be present?

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It binds with troponin to move tropomyosin allowing access to myosin binding sites on the actin.

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What happens during the power stroke?

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Both Pi and ADP released
Mysoin rotates to low energy state (45 degrees to actin).
Pulls the thin filaments

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What happens during detachment?

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New ATP binds to myosin head and it detaches from actin.

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What happens during energisation of myosin head?

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Hydrolysis of ATP to ADP and Pi
Myosin head cocks to it’s high energy confirmation
(90 degrees to actin)

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Why is calcium important?

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Calcium ions provide the “on” switch for the cross cycle

The cycle will continue as long as Ca levels remain above the critical threshold. (.001 - .01 mM).

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How is calcium regulated?

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Calcium channels in the SR open and calcium flows into cytosol/t tubules
Active Ca ATPase pumps are constantly moving calcium back into the SR.

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What is isometric contraction?

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No shortening
Length constant
Tension variable

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What is Isotonic contraction?

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Shortening
Tension constant
Velocity variable

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Why determines the the maximum force in isometric contraction?

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The degree of myosin and actin overlap

2.2 um is optimum

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At what stage do the filaments start overlapping too much?
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At what length does the force start decreasing due to stretch?
>2.2um
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What are the steps of a motor neuron action potential?
1. ACh released into neurotransmitter junction 2. Activation of ACh receptors 3. A muscle AP is triggered 4. Calcium is released from the SR 5. Calcium binds with troponin 6. Cross bridge formation 7. Power stroke 8. De tatchment 9. Re-energisation 10. Contracation ends when Ca levels fall
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What happens when an Action potenital hits the end plate?
Ca+ enters axon terminal, which trigggers the ACh vesicles fusing with membrane
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What does the binding of ACh allow?
The movement of Na+ into the muscle cell (end plate potential)
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What is ACh broken down by?
Acytelcholieesterase
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What happens when enough ligand gated channels open?
Voltage gated channels open and propagate down the sacrolemma
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What is the typical resting potential for motor neurons?
-90 mV
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What is the excitation-contraction coupling?
Action potentials run down the sarcolemma and the t tubules. AP reaches the voltage sensitive protein which then releases the voltage gated channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum into the sarcoplasm.
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What does creatine phophate do?
It can hold a phosphate and donate it to an ADP. (under 15 seconds only) Anaerobic process
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What are the charateristics of anaerobic glycolysis?
Fast but efficient. | Leads to a build uo of lactic acid and H+ limits duration to 30-40s
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What are the characterisics of aerobic metabolism?
Efficient but slow Only about 300 W Cna run for a long time
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What are type one muscle fibres?
Slow oxidative
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What are type IIB muscle fibres?
Fast glycolyitc
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What are type IIA muscles?
Fast oxidative (not in humans)
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What regulates force?
1. Rate of stimulation of individual motor unit | 2. The number of motor units used.
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What muscle fibres do we usually recruit first?
Type I
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What is another name for involuntary movement?
Myogenic
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What is another name for voluntary movement?
Neurogenic
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Is cardiac muscle electrically isolated like skeletal?
No
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What's the difference in T tubules between skeletal an cardia?
The T-tubules are at the Z disks in cardiac and there is only one per sarcomere instead of 2 at the ...
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What are the two types of cardiac action potential?
Ventricular myocyte | Sinoatrial node
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In Ventricular myocyte AP, what ion flows do we have?
Out: Na+ Ca2+ In: K+
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How long is a vetricular monocyte AP?
300 - 400 ms
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What are the steps of calcium-induced calcium release?
1. Excittion 2. Opeing of voltage-sensative plasma membrane 3. Flow of C into cell 4. Stimulation of CA from SR 5. Cytosolic concentration inrease 6. Contraction
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What is a DHPR channel?
L type Calcium channel
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How do we increase the CO?
Increased stretch of ventricles Increased rate of firing Certain hormones
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What is the cardiac output equation?
Cardiac output = Stroke volume * Heart rate
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Why does the heart beat spontaneously?
Because the SA node is spontaneously depolarizing
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What is the ion flow in Sinoatrial Node APs?
In: CaL CaT If(funny) Out: K
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What is the spontaneous depolarisation commonly called?
Pacemaker potential
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What are ways to control thr heart rate?
1. Decrease the threrhold 2. Making the maximum diastolic potential more postive (less hyperpolarised) 3. Increasing the rate of spontaneous deploarisation
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What does the Vagus nerve do?
It is part of the parasympathetic system Activates SA node DereaSes heart rate Release Acetyl Choline
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What does the Sympathetic nerve do?
Increases heart rate Releases noradrenaline Activates AV Node
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What is intrinsic heart rate?
100-110 bpm

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