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What is the primary function of all muscle

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Generate force and/or movement in response to physiological stimulus

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What are 7 functions of muscle

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  • body movement
  • maintenance of posture
  • respiration
  • productions of body heat
  • communication
  • constrictions of organs and vessels
  • heart beat
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What does all generation of force depend on

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Conversion of chemical energy (ATP)

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What are characteristics of skeletal muscle?

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  • primarily voluntary by somatic motor neurons
  • striated and multinucleated
  • attached to bone or attached to other skeletal muscle that is attached to bone
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What is another word for muscle cell

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Muscle fiber

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Why is muscle striated

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Arrangement of thick and thin filaments

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Characteristics of cardiac muscle

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  • generates force to create pressure gradient that drives blood flow
  • primarily involuntary; spontaneous electrical activity (doesn’t need neuronal input)
  • can be altered by autonomic NS, hormones
  • striated and uninucleated
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Characteristics of smooth muscle

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  • primarily involuntary: autonomic control, spontaneous, hormones, paracrines or autocrines
  • non-striated and uninucleated
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What does smooth muscle provide mechanical control of?

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  • digestive tract
  • urinary tract
  • reproductive tract
  • blood vessels
  • airways
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How is skeletal muscles attached to bone

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Tendons

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What is origin

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Closest to trunk or to more stationary bone

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What is insertion point

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More distal or more mobile attachment

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What are antagonistic muscle groups

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  • when movement is around a joint
  • flexor-extensor pairs
  • flexor: brings bones together
  • extensor: moves bones away
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How much of total body weight is skeletal muscle and how much of daily energy expenditure does it use

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40%
Based on activity level 15-60%

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What is a muscle cell membrane

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Sarcolemma

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What is a muscle cytoplasm

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Sarcoplasm

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What is a muscles modified endoplasmic reticulum

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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How long are muscle fibers

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Can extend entire length of muscle
- sartorius ~30cm

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What is components of skeletal muscle from largest to smallest?

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Muscles fascicles and connective issue and nerve and blood vessels -> muscle fibers -> sarcolemma (t-tubules) and sarcoplasm and nuclei -> SR and myofibrils and mitochondria and glycogen -> troponin, actin, tropomyosin, myosin, titin, nebulin

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How many muscle fibers in a muscle fascicle

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20-60

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How many myofibrils in a single muscle fiber

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What are myofibrils composed of

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Sarcomeres stacked end to end

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What is a sarcomere

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Basic functional unit of skeletal muscle
Made of long myofibrils

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Where is force generated

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At level of individual sarcomere

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What are the contractile proteins
Thick filament: myosin Thin filament: actin
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What is dark on a sarcomere
Thick filament doesn’t let light through (myosin) Z-disk is dense protein structure
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What is the model of a sarcomere
Z disk to z disk
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What are the thin filaments
F-actin, tropomyosin, troponin complex
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What is F-actin
Back bone of thin filaments - double stranded alpha helical polymer of G-actin molecules - contains binding site for myosin
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What is tropomyosin
- two identical alpha helictites that coil around each other and sit in the two grooves formed by actin strands - regulated actin-myosin binding - when active sit over myosin binding sites
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What is the troponin complex
Heterotrimer (3 protein structures) consisting of: 1. Troponin T (TNT) : binds to a single tropomyosin 2. Troponin C (TnC): Ca2+ binding site 3. Troponin I (TnI): under resting conditions is bound to actin inhibiting contraction
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Where is troponin complex situated
~ every 7 actin molecules - holds tropomyosin over myosin binding site
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What are the thick filaments
Bundle of myosin molecules - two intertwined heavy chain - each heavy chain contains two light chains - regulatory light chain - essential light chain
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What does the myosin head contain
Region for binding actin as well as site for binding and hydrolyzing ATP (ATPase)
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What does regulatory light chain regulate
ATPase activity of myosin - controls speed and movement
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What does essential light chain stabilize
The myosin head
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What are the accessory proteins in the sarcomere
Titian and nebulin
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What is titin
Very large protein extending from m-line to z line - appears to be involved in stabilization of thick filaments and elastic recoil of muscle (pulls sarcomere back to resting length)
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What is nebulin
Large protein that interacts with thin filaments - believed to regulate length of thin filaments and contribute to structural integrity of myofibrils
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What are the 5 bands of the sarcomere
Z disk, I bands, A band, H zone, M line
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What is the z disk
Zigzag protein structure that is the attachment site for thin filaments
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What are I bands
Lightest band of sarcomere, occupied only by thin filaments - considered 2 with z disk in middle
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What is A band
Darkest band, encompasses entire eight of thick filament, including area where thin and thick overlap
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What is H zone
Central region of A band, consists only of thick filaments
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What is M line
Proteins form attachment site for thick filaments, equivalent to z disk for thin filaments
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What are the transverse tubules
Continuation of sarcolemma into middle of muscle fiber
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What is a muscle triad
T-tubule with 2 adjacent terminal cisternae
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What is a terminal cisternae
Portion of SR that interacts with t-tubules (most of calcium storage)
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What is Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Modified endoplasmic reticulum that serves Ca2+ storage for contraction
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What is the sliding filament model
- sarcomere shortens - actin and myosin do not change length but slide past one another
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What is muscle tension
Force generated by contracting skeletal muscle
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When muscle is contracted which band remains constant
A band doesn’t change while H zone and I band shorten

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