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sarcomere

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individual contractile units of skeletal muscle

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thin filament

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actin which gets pulled during contraction

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thick filament

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myosin which pulls the muscle fibre to initiate contraction

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Neuromuscular Junction

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the junction where the nerve is meeting the muscle between the actual presynaptic terminal and muscle fibers

  • not an actual synapse
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what is the other name for NMJ?

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motor end plate

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Myelin sheath

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coats the nerves as it helps with the conductance of electrical signals

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schwann cells

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a type of glial cells which sorrounds a neuron (forms a myelin sheath), and is mostly responsible in the metabolic processes

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Junctional folds

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increases the surface membrane of the sarcolemma and for the of acetylcholine (the area is densely pack with acetylcholine and ach receptors)

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agonist

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a drug or substance (nicotine) that will stimulate more functions

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antagonist

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a substance that is able to block functions of another substance

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Myasthenia Gravis

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a chronic immune diseases, a neuromuscular diseases which cause weakness in the skeletal muscle

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Occupancy

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how much acetylcholine has been released and is bound to the receptor itself

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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

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  • encloses all the individual myofibrils which also contains connections to itself
  • Calcium storage
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Why does the sarcomere have striped pattern?

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it contains intercalated thin and thick filaments which are contractile proteins

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What does the body mass mostly contained?

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skeletal muscles

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Sarcolemma

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an outer membrane which encapsulates the myofibril

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When does a triad occurs?

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occurs when we have the terminal cristernae of an Sr and a T-tubule

  • triad is important for regulation of excitation-contraction coupling
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What is the function of a serca pump?

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it uses ATP to move calcium from the cytoplasmic space up to the SR itself

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myosin complex

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part of thick filament (long arms and flexible heads)

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actin helix

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thin filament (made up of globular proteins)

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Tropomyosin

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wraps around the actin filament which acts as a stabiliser

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What is rigor mortis?

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the stiffening of the body muscles due to the chemical changes in the myofibrils (this occurs due to the lack of ATP)

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Fast fibres

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  • are big in diameter and have a large cross sectional area
  • they produce lots of energy and stores them (energy ready for used) because they are slow at producing energy
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slow fibres

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are smaller in diameter and cross sectional area
- they produce energy faster as their function is to support, therefore flow is steady and slow and that is why they have lots of capillaries beds for bloods supply and to produce more energy

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Motor unit
motor neuron and the recruitment of a muscle fibres
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Active zone
docking sites of vesicles
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What effects does having action potential in the motor neuron
Action potential in the motor neuron leads to depolarization of muscle fibers via Acetylcholine (Ach) - depolarization is caused by having a negative membrane potential going into a positive membrane potential due to sodium channels opening
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Synthesise Acetylcholine
- Acetyl coA + choline gets synthesise through an enzyme called acetyltransferase (ChAT) - we can then break this down to have acetylcholine as an input - Ach, we then use acetylcholinesterase (AchE) to break it down into acetic acid + choline
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What is the function of the NMJ?
this is the area where we get a transferal of action potential or electrical signal from an actual nerve to translating it into an action potential into the muscle itself - this action potential tells the muscle it is time to contract
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Importance of the NMJ structure?
- important for linking the signal from the nerve and the brain to the muscle - the structure of NMJ allows the muscle to be under involuntary control
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Features of a muscle fibres
- contain lots of mitochondria which is located between myofibrils - nuclei are dotted in regular interval throughout the outer membrane (sarcolemma of the cell -multinucleated
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Why are slow fibres more efficient than fast fibres?
slow muscle fibres uses oxygen to generate more adenosine triphosphate for continuous muscle contraction over a long period of time - they fire AP more slowly which means than they can go longer before experiencing fatigue
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Type I: slow oxidative fibres
slower form of serca - slower increase of tension produced - slow muscle twitch fibres - smaller and pinker fibres - slow contractors - slow at utilizing ATP
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Type II: Glycolytic Fibres
faster form of serca - rapid increase to tension produce and very rapid relaxation phase which is due to having a fast form of myosin - fast twitch fibres - fast contractions - fast relaxation (super fatigable)
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Feature of Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
- has five subunit and four transmembrane domain - have pore gated: gate normally closed (at rest)
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Transmembrane domain
- organised in a way that we have a subunit with a central pore - purpose of the central pore is to to use as transporter though passive diffusion
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Nicotinic AchR
- chemically gated (opens when two Ach binds) - Non-slective; permeable to both Na+ and K+ - opening results in depolarisation due to entry of sodium ions
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Concentration Gradient
Outside cell: -High Na+ -Low K+ Inside cell: - High K+ -Low K+
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Local depolarisation
- having sodium ions in a negative space
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muscarinic acetylcholine receptor
- not located in neuromuscular juncton, mostlyfound in smooth muscle - not chemically gated
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Nicotine recptors
-nicotine comes into the system via smoking or vaping, thesewill then affect more of the central located nicotinic receptors not the one in the neuromuscular junction - more effect in the CNS than the PNS
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Agonist
stimulate more function of the drugs
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Antagonist
able to block the function of how drugs or chemical works
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Effects of reduce number of Ach receptors?
Reducing the number of Ach recptors and we damage them, this results in impaired response of acetylcholine so there is a reduce in the neuromuscular junction function. This means that it is not getting enough nerve signal to muscle and will cause weakness e.g. Myasthenia Gravis
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Fasciculi
individual bundle of muscle fibres in skeletal muscle
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skeletal muscle features
- heavily multinucleated cells (formed from the fusion of embryonic myoblast) - large diameter in fast twitch fibre compare to the slow twitch fibre
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Type IIA: Intermediate fibres
- fast form of myosin ATPase - mix of oxidative and glycolytic enzymes - intermediate speed / fatigue
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Slow oxidative fibres
useful for endurance events
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fast-oxidative fibres and fast-glycolytic fibres
useful for power and sprint events
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Recruitment
The process of activating more fibres to make force - the number of fibres activated is regulated by how many neurons are activated at one time - small number of active neurons tends to produce low force from the muscle
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Size principle of motor units
small units are recruited first, so more tonically active (results in fine graded control of small forces e.g. fingertips) - bigger units are autimatically recruited as required force increases
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Isometric
length of the muscle remains constant during contraction - no external force is being generated by the muscle
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concentric
muscle shortening during contraction - shortening against fixed load, speed dependent on M.ATPase activity and load
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eccentric
muscle lengthens during contraction - most likely to cause muscle injury
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voltage sensor (EC-Coupling)
senses any changes across the membrane potential of the actual sarcolemma itself of the skeletal muscle fibre
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Ryanodine receptor
a calcium release channel that sits on the terminal cisternae - contain lots of calcium
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Voltage sensor is not a g-coupled protein
It does not have a secondary messenger system - but can mechanically activate the ryanodine receptor (calcium release channel) on the terminal cisternae of the sarcoplasmic reticulum
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Difference between EEG and EMG?
- Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a non-invasive brain imaging technique that uses scalp electrodes to measure the voltage fluctuations induced by the mass electrical activity of neurons whereas, - Electromyography (EMG) technique is usually used to record the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles

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