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Cardiac Muscle Tissue

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Forms most of the heart wall
Is striated
Is involuntary
Can regenerate under certain conditions

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Skeletal muscle tissues

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Is attached to bones and moves part of the skeleton
Is striated (alternating light and dark bands)
Is voluntary (conscious control)
Has limited capacity for regeneration

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Smooth muscle tissue

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Located in the walls of hollow internal structures like blood vessels, airways and the stomach
Not striated
Is voluntary
Compared to other muscles it has a considerable capacity to regenerate

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Functions of the muscle tissue

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Producing body movements like running or walking
Stabilizing body positions like sitting or standing
Regulating organ volume by using ring muscles called sphincters to close off outlets from the stomach and bladder
Moving substances within the body like blood, food, sperm, eggs
Producing heat from the contraction of muscles

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Skeletal muscle is composed of

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Cells called muscle fibers

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Epimyseum

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CT that wraps the muscle fibers

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Perimyseum

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CT that surrounds a fascicles which is a bundle of 10-100 muscle fibers

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Endomyseum

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CT that wraps each individual muscle fiber

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Tendon

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A cord formed from the extension epimyseum, perimyseum, and endomyseum. It attaches the muscle to a bone.

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What are skeletal muscles supplied with?

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Nerves and blood vessels which provide nutrients and oxygen for the production of ATP

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Sarcolemma

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The name for the plasma membrane

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T-tubules (transverse tubules)

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Tunnel like inward extensions of the sarcolemma

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Nuclei

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Each muscle fiber contains multiple nuclei

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Sarcoplasm

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The name for the muscle fibers cytoplasm

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Mitochondria

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Makes large amounts of ATP for muscle contraction

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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SR)

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Similar to the endoplasmic reticulum; it stores calcium ions needed for muscle contraction

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Myoglobin

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Reddish pigment that stores oxygen until it is needed by the mitochondria to produce ATP

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Myofibrils

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Cylindrical structures within and extending the length of the muscle fiber
They contain thin and thick filaments (do not run the entire length of the muscle fiber)

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Thick filaments

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Made up of protein called myosin

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Thin filaments

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Contains the protein actin

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Sarcomere

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Compartment within the myofibril formed from the filaments of the thick and thin filaments
Basic functional unit of the muscle fiber

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Z-discs

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Zig zag zones that separate one sarcomere from the next

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Sliding filament mechanism

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During muscle contraction myosin heads of the thick filaments pull and slide on the thin filaments causing the thin filaments to pull toward the center of the sarcomere
When the filaments slide past each other it causes the sarcomere to get shorter causing the shortening of the entire muscle fiber
Ca+ must be high enough and there must be enough ATP available

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Neuromuscular Junction

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Nueromuscular junction is the synapse (connection) between a motor neuron and muscle fiber

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Motor Neuron
A nerve cell that delivers an electrical signal called a muscle action potential (nerve impulse) The message is what tells the muscle it's time to contract Motor unit- a single motor neuron plus all of the muscle fibers it stimulates. Stimulation of one motor unit causes all the fibers in the motor unit to contract at the same time Axon terminal- the end of the axon (long process) of a motor unit that approaches but does not touch the sarcolemma of a muscle fiber. The ends of the axon terminal enlarge into synaptic end bulbs. The synaptic end bulbs contains sacs called synaptic vesicles which are filled with a chemical called acetylcholine (ACh) a neurotransmitter
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Synaptic cleft
The space between the axon terminal and the sarcolemma of a muscle fiber
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Motor end plate
The region of the sarcolemma near the axon teriminal; it contains millions of ACh receptors
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When nerve impulses arrive at the synaptic end bulbs:
ACh is released from the synaptic vesicles. It diffuses across the synaptic cleft. ACh binds to the receptors in the motor end plate. This opens ion channels in the sarcolemma that allow sodium ions to flow across the membrane and enter the muscle fiber As a result the sodium ions rushing in, actin potential is generated which flows along the sarcolemma and through the t-tubules Acetylholinesterase (AChE) breaks down ACh
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Two things are needed for muscle contraction
Ca+ | Energy
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When a muscle fiber is relaxed:
Ca+ is found in the sarcoplasmic reticulum. When muscle action potential travels into the SR Ca12 is released into the sarcoplasm where it uncovers myosin biding site of the thin filaments
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Contraction occurs:
As ATP is split into ADP and P and energy is transferred into myosin
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The power stroke occurs
Myosin, the thick filaments slide the thin filaments, actin toward the center of the sarcomere
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Energized myosin heads
Form cross bridges that attach to actin
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Relaxation
ACh is broke down by AChE | Ca+2 are pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum
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Rigor mortis
After a person dies Ca+2 leaks out of the sarcoplasmic reticulum causing the thin filaments to slide and the muscles to stiffen Lasts about 24 hours
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Muscle tone
There is a continual involuntary activation of a small number of motor units even when the whole muscle is not contracting Needed to maintain posture
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Flaccid
Very limp
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ATP
Produced by mitochondria Provides energy for the moving thick filaments cross bridges when split ATP--> ADP+P+Energy Enough power contraction for only a few seconds
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Creatine phosphate
The transfer of high energy phosphate group from creatine phosphate to ADP forms new ATP molecules CP+ADP--> ATP+ creatine Creatine phosphate and ATP provide enough energy for muscles to contract for about 15 seconds
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Anaerobic cellular respiration (glycosis)
Found in the blood. Also produced within muscle fibers by the breakdown of glycogen, it's storage form Glucose is converted into pyruvic acid in these reactions which produce 2 ATPs without oxygen 1 glucose + 2 pyruvic acid --> 2 ATPs Enough energy for 30-40 seconds
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Aerobic cellular respiration
Mitochondria use oxygen to convert glucose to ATP 1 glucose --> O2 + 2 pyruvic acid --> CO2 + H2O + 36 ATP 10 minutes of activities
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Muscle fatigue
Inability of a muscle to contract forcefully after prolonged activity
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Recovery oxygen uptake
Elevated oxygen use after exercise
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Twitch contraction
A brief contraction of all muscle fibers of a motor unit in response to a single action potential stimulus
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Myogram
Recordings of muscle contractions
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Latent period
Time between application of stimulus and actual shortening of the muscle fiber
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Contraction period
Actual contraction is taking place
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Relaxation period
Re-lengthening of the muscle
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Wave summation
Increased strength of contraction that occurs when a second stimulus arrives before the muscle has completely relaxed after a previous stimulus
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Infused tetanus
Repeated stimuli cause a sustained wavering contraction with partial relaxation between stimuli
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Fused tetanus
Faster repeated stimuli cause a sustained muscle contraction without partial relaxation between stimuli
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Motor unit recruitment
The process of increasing the number of contracting motor units. It allows for smooth movements to occur
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Isotonic contractions
Tension remains relatively constant but length changes allowing movement
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Isometric contraction
Muscle length does not or cannot change, but tension increases. This acts to stabilize posture
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Aging effects on skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle is slowly replaced with fibrous CT and adipose Decrease in strength Slow muscle reflexes Loss of flexibility
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Muscle tone
Slight | Constant contraction during consciousness
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Isotonic
Shortens the muscle and causes movement
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Isometric
Increases muscle tensions but no movement occurs
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Tetanus
Continuous sustained contraction allowing smooth movement
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Summation
"Stairstep" increase in contraction with repeated stimulation before muscle has completely relaxed
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Essential for maintaining posture
Muscle tone
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The third phase of muscle twitch contraction
Relaxation
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These structures in the enlarged bulbs of an axon provide energy to make ACh
Mitochondria
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State of limpness
Flaccid
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Cytoplasm of a muscle fiber
Sarcoplasm
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This tissue is responsible for most of the heat production going on in the body
Muscle tissue
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The movement of these ions from outside the sarcolemma to inside causes an action potential to begin to move along
Sodium
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These ions are necessary to trigger muscle contraction
Ca+2 | Stored in the SR
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Dietary supplement that some studies show may result in more lifting power
Creatine
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The storage form of glucose in our liver and muscles
Glycogen
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This anaerobic process provides enough energy for 30-40 sec of maximal activity
What is glycolysis
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The connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
Tendon
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The source of energy for muscle contraction
ATP
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What is another name for action potential?
What is nerve impulse
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This is required by mitochondria in the aerobic production of energy for muscle contraction
What is oxygen
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Another name for muscle cells
What is muscle fiber
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This is the cell membrane of muscle cells
What is sarcolemma
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The alternate light and dark bands running through the sarcoplasm of a muscle cell is
Straition
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A single nerve fiber and the muscle fiber it supplies
What is motor unit
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A chemical necessary to transfer the nerve impulse to stimulate the muscle
What is acetylcholine
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The time between the application of a stimulus and the actual shortening of the muscle
Latent period
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The two types of skeletal muscle contractions needed for normal body movements
Isotonic and tetanus
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The connection between nerve fiber and muscle fiber is
Neuromuscular junction
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A brief contraction of all muscle fibers of a motor unit in response to a single stimulus
What is a twitch
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Most of the Co+2 is found here when a muscle fiber is relaxed
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
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A stiffening of the muscles after death due to Ca+2 leaking out of the sarcoplasmic reticulum
What is rigor mortis
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Name the major function of muscles
Movement, position, volume substances heat
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The neurotransmitter released from the synaptic vesicles of neurons supplying skeletal muscle
ACH
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What is the thick myofilament that has enlarged heads to form cross bridges
What is myosin
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ATP----ADP + phosphate group +energy
For contraction
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CP+ ADP----creatine + ATP
Creatine pathway
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Glucose-------pyruvic acid------2ATP
No oxygen
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Glucose-----O2 + pyruvic acid-CO2 + H2O + 36ATP
Oxygen

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