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Test 2 Muscular tissue/system
Chapter 10 & 11 Muscle tissue and System Power Point notes
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
10/20/2009

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The study of muscles is :
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myology is the study of muscles
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The primary function of muscle is to transform _______ energy into ______ energy. So Muscles Can: generate force perform work, and produce movement.
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Primary function of muscles is to transform chemical energy to mechanical energy to (3 things)
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How does muscular tissue contribute to homeostasis? (3 things)
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Muscular tissue contributes to this_____ by 1.producing body movements, 2. moving substanaces through the body, 3. producing heat to maintain normal body temp
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Describe skeletal muscle?
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This _______ functions to move bone, a few may move skin or other muscles, some are striated, * striated, are fibers that have alternating bands
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What types of muscle tissue?
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(what are these?) skeletal muscle, cardiac, smooth muscle
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describe cardiac muscle?
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This is striate, involuntary, muscle fibers branch
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Describe smooth muscle:
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This is found in the walls of internal structures (blood vess, airways, most organs of the abd cav, fnd in skin, attached to hair follicles)
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Functions of muscle tissue:
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produces body movement, stabilizes body positions, stores & moves substances within the body
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what is thermogenesis?
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The production of heat due to muscle contraction is_______. It is a function of muscle tissue...
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Name 2 properties of muscular tissue...
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Electrical Excitability & Contractility which are?
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What is Electrical excitability?
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The abiity to respond to stimuli by producing action potentials
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2 types of stimuli that trigger action potential?
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Autorhythmic electrical signals, chemical stimuli, which are 2 types of _______.
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name 2 chemical stimuli for action potentials.
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neurotransmitters and hormones, (are chemical stimuli for ______)
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what is Contractility?
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The ability to contract when stimulated by an action potential is_____.
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skeletal muscles are composed of .....
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cells (fibers-surrounded by connective tissue), blood vessels and nerves penetrate into muscles
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components of connective tissue...
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Two types of fascia, including location and structure
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what is fascia?
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connective tissue that supports and surrounds muscles and organs
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what are the 2 types of fascia
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superficial fascia and deep fascia
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location and structure of superficial fascia
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This _________ separates muscles from skin, composed of areolar connective tissue and adipose
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What does the superficial fascia function for? or as?
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This connective tissue_______ of the skeletal muscle, stores water and fat, insultes against heat loss, mechanical protection
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The ____________fascia provides a pathway for nerves blood vessels and lymphatic vessels to enter and exit muscles
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superficial fascia, allows a pathway for nerves blood vvessels and lymphatic vessels to enter and exit muscles
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The deep fascia is what type of connective tissue?
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dense irregular tissue
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The superficial fascia is what type of tissue?
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areolar connective tissue
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There are 3 layers of deep fascia, name them..
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epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium. these layers belong to which component of the skeletal muscle?
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What is the epimysium?
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The ________ is the outermost layer, encircles the muscle, dense irrecgule conn tissue
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What is Perimysium?
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The ______ surronds groups of 10 to 100 or mor ind fibers, separates the bundles into fascicles, consists of dense irreg conn tissue
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Endomysium is?
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_______ penetrates the interior of each fascicle, separates ind muscle fibers (cells) frome ea other, thin sheath of areolar conn tissue
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Describe a tendon
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a ______ is a cord of dense reg conn tissue, attaches a muscle to the periosteum of bone, some are enclosed within theh tendon sheath (some contain synovial fluid)
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where do muscle fiber arise from?
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the fusion of myoblasts during embryonic development (mesodermal cells)(what is a_________?)
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Muscle fibers undergo muscle growth_______, without cell division.
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hypertrophy, (without cell division) muscle fiber enlargement.
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what is the sarcolemma?
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the plasma membrane (also known as the ______)
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The sarcoplasm is the ?
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cytoplasm or the _______
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What is the function of T-Tubules?
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allows action potentials to spread through the muscle fiber
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What are the myofibrils?
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contractile elements of skeletal muscle, made of thick and thin filament
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sarcoplasmic reticulum is the?
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fluid filled system of membranous sacs,releas calcium to trigger muscle contraction
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a triad does what?
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a transverse tubule + 2 terminal cisterns
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describe thin filaments
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mainly composed of actin, contains 2 regulatory proteins tropomyosin & troponin
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What are thick filaments made of?
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300 myosin molecules
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what is a sarcomere?
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compartments of filaments
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What is the basic unit of a muscle fiber?
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sarcomere
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a myosin molecule is composed of ?
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actin, troponin and tropomyosin.... (there are 2 thin filiments for every thick filiment)
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Myofibrils consist of 3 kinds of protein... what are they?
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contratile, regulatory, and structural proteins
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a contractile protein is?
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A contractile protein... generates force during contraction, actin and myosin
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regulatory proteins :
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help turn the contractile process on and off, tropomyosin and troponin
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structural proteins:
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keep thick and thin filaments in proper alignment, give the myofibril elasticity and extensability, link the myofibril to the sacolemma and extracellular matrix
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a structural protein include:
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titin, myomesin, dystrophin
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a function of myosin?
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functions as a motor protein in all three types of muscle tissue
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motor proteins convert _______ energy in ATP to ________ energy...
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This converts chemical energy in ATP to mechanical energy
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tropomyosin is?
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linear protein lies in the groove formed by the actin protein, covers the myosin binding sites in resting muscle
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troponin is?
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holds the actin and tropomyosin together, and contains a binding site for calcium.
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What is actin?
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ind actin molecules join together to form an actin filament that is twiste forma a helix
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what is myosin
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ea myosin mol is shaped like 2 golf clubs twisted together, the tails form the shaft of the thick filament the heads extend outward, they attatch to the myosin binding site
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*name the regulatory proteins
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troponin and tropomyosin
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*What covers the myosin binding site in relaxed muscle?
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tropomyosin
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*what holds the tropomyosin in place in relaxed muscle?
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troponin
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what is a neuromuscular junction
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a synapse between the axon terminals of a motor neuron and the sarcolemma of a muscle fiber
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what are the components of a neuromuscular junction
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synaptic end bulb of the motor neuron, synaptic cleft, motor end plate region of the sarcolemma
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muscle metabolism, more ATP is produced from?
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creatine phosphate, anaerobic cell resp, aerobic cell resp
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creatinine phosphate is produced and found how/where?
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molecule found only in skeletal muscle fibers, high energy phosphate bonds, ATP from ADP by transfer of a phosphate group
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anaerobic cell respiration-
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glycolysis, glucose is broken down, producing pyruvic, 2 ATP-Pyruvic acid is converted to lactic acid
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aerobic cell resp
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requires O2, from muscles in myoglobin (protein in sarcoplasm) or diffusion into muscle from blood
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Reasons for muscle fatigue?
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not enough ATP production, insufficient O2, glycogen depletion, inadequate release of calcium ions, depletion of creatine phos, build up of lactic acid
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what is a twitch contraction?
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CONTRACTION OF MOTOR UNIT IN RESPONSE TO A SINGLE ACTION POTENTION OF MOTOR UNIT
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