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muscle tissue Flashcards

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What are the 3 types of muscle tissue?

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Skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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Contractile tissues

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muscle tissues are contractile tissues, they generate tension and movement

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Skeletal muscle tissue

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Most are attached to the bones of the skeleton by tendons, called muscle fibers, perform voluntary movements, multinucleate, and they are striated

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Multinucleate

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Each cell has more than one nucleus

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Striations

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Alternating light and dark bands that can be seen when muscle tissue is examined with a microscope

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What are some functions of the skeletal muscle tissue?

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Producing voluntary body movements, maintaining posture, breathing movements, and generating heat

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Cardiac muscle tissue

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Found only in the walls of the heart, responsible for the heartbeat, uninucleate, striated, action is involuntary, has intercalated discs

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Uninucleate

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One nucleus per muscle fiber

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Involuntary actions

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Contraction and relaxation is not consciously controlled

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Autohythmicity

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The built-in rhythm of the heart created by the pacemaker

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Intercalated discs

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Interlocking attachment sites between cardiac muscle fibers

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Desmosomes

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Cell junctions that firmly hold cardiac muscle cells together

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Gap junction

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Protein channels for electrochemical signals to pass from cell to cell stimulate the heartbeat

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Smooth muscle tissue

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Located on the walls of hollow internal structures, non-striated, spindle-shaped muscle fibers with one nucleus, involuntary control, move substances within the body, contraction of this muscle tissue can cause constriction and dilation

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Peristalsis

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the smooth muscle moves food through the gastrointestinal tract and produces a wave-like motion

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Contraction of smooth muscles

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causes constriction of blood vessels, which reduces blood flow and increases blood pressure

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Relaxation of smooth muscle

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walls dilate blood vessels, which increases blood flow and lowers blood pressure

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Excitability

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Ability to respond to nervous stimulation or electrical stimulation

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Contractility

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Ability to contract forcefully when stimulated. If enough tension is generated, the muscle tissue shortens and movement occurs

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Extensibility

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Ability to stretch without tearing

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Elasticity

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Ability to return to the muscle tissues’ original length after stretching or after contracting

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What tissue types do skeletal muscles contain?

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They contain all 4 primary tissue types.

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Tendon

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is a cord of dense regular connective tissue that attaches a muscle to the periosteum of the bone

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Aponeurosis

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is a broad, flattened tendon

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Areolar connective tissue

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Surrounds and protects individual muscle fibers

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Dense irregular connective tissue

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Surrounds bundles of muscle fibers called fascicles

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Fascicle

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A bundle of 10-100 muscle fibers within a muscle. Are held together by dense irregular connective tissue. Give muscle its “grain”

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Deep fascia

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Refers to the sheet of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds groups of muscles and separates the muscles into functional compartments

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27
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Embryonic development

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100 or more embryonic stem cells called myoblasts fuse to form a muscle fiber, making the muscle fiber multinucleate

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Satellite cells

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Adult stem cells that develop from myoblasts and remain in mature muscle tissue

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Fibrosis

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Replacing muscle tissue with scar tissue

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Hypertrophy

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an enlargement of existing muscle fibers that result in muscle growth

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Sarcolemma

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the plasma membrane of a muscle fiber

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Transverse tubules

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invaginations of the sarcolemma, tunnel in from the plasma membrane toward the center of the muscle fiber.

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Sarcoplasm

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is the cytoplasm of the muscle fiber

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The sarcoplasmic reticulum

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specialized smooth endoplasmic reticulum that encircles each myofibril

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Mitochondria

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organelles that use nutrients and O2 to produce ATP energy for the cell. Several mitochondria lie close to the myofibrils and provide ATP energy for muscle contraction

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Sarcomer

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the basic functional unit of a myofibril, extends from Z disc to Z disc

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Z discs

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protein structures that separate one sarcomere from its neighboring sarcomeres on either side

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A band

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the darker middle part of the sarcomere – thick filaments extend across the A bands

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H zone

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the center of each a band, contains only thick filaments and no thin filaments

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M line

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runs down the center of the H zone, the M line contains supporting proteins that hold the thick filaments in position in the H zone

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I bands

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lighter bands on each end of the sarcomere contains only thin filaments

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Structural proteins

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align the thick and thin filaments properly within a sarcomere, provide elasticity and extensibility for the muscle fiber, attach the myofibrils to the sarcolemma and connective tissue

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Contractile proteins

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generate force during contraction and create movement

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Regulatory proteins

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Switch the contraction process on and off

45
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Titin protein

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connects a Z disc with an M line, titin can stretch to 4 times its resting length, and then recoil back to normal, titin accounts for much of the extensibility and elasticity of myofibrils and muscle tissue

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Dystrophin

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a structural protein that attaches the myofibril to the sarcolemma and to the connective tissue around the cell

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Muscular dystrophy

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s recessive X-linked genetic disorder in which there is little or no dystrophin protein produced in the muscle fibers

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Thick filaments

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made of myosin protein

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Thin filaments

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Consists of primarily actin protein

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Actin

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Provides myosin-binding sites where myosin heads can attach

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somatic motor neurons

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nerve cells that stimulate skeletal muscle fibers to contract

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Neuromuscular junction

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a synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber

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synapse

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a junction between neurons or between neurons and muscle fibers where a chemical signal is transmitted from neuron to neuron, or from motor neuron to a muscle fiber

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Axons

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motor neurons branch into many axon terminals, which form neuromuscular junctions with individual muscle fibers

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Synaptic end bulb

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the enlarged tip of the axon terminal of the neuron

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The synaptic cleft

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a fluid-filled gap in a neuromuscular junction between the synaptic end bulb of the motor neuron and the motor end plate of the muscle fiber

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Acetylcholine

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a neurotransmitter

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Neurotransmitter

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a chemical messenger released by the motor neuron into the synaptic cleft, released by somatic motor neurons is acetylcholine

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Synaptic vesicles

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membrane-bound sacs inside the synaptic end bulb, the synaptic vesicles contain molecules of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine

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Motor end plate

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the region of the muscle fiber’s sarcolemma opposite the synaptic end bulbs within a neuromuscular junction, contains acetylcholine receptors

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Acetylcholine receptors

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proteins embedded in the motor end plate, bind to acetylcholine

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Excitation

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contraction coupling refers to the connection between excitation by a motor neuron and the contraction of the muscle fiber

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twitch contraction

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a brief contraction of all muscle fibers in one motor unit in response to a single muscle action potential

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myogram

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a graphical record of muscle contraction in response to electrical stimulation of the motor unit

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Latent period

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a brief delay between stimulation by motor neurons and the beginning of the muscle fiber contraction

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Wave summation

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Muscle fibers in the motor unit are stimulated before the muscle is completely relaxed, this creates stronger and stronger contraction in the muscle fiber = summation of the force of contraction

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Unfused tetanus

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Muscle fibers are stimulated 20-30 times per second, partially relax between contractions, the result is a sustained but wavering contraction

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Fused tetanus

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Muscle fibers are stimulated 80-100 times per second, and do not relax at all, resulting in a sustained contraction called fused tetanus

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