3.1: skeletal muscle

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origin

immovable point of attachment

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insertion

attachment on bone that’s moveable

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agonist

muscle group responsible for producing movement

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antagonist

muscle on opposite side of joint & reverses movement

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synergist

muscle that aids an agonist by performing similar movement

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types of muscle:

cardiac, smooth, skeletal

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cardiac muscle:

-make up walls of ___

-striated/ nonstriated, ____ contractions

heart, striated, involuntary

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smooth muscle:

-make up walls of ____

-straited/ nonstriated, ____ contractions

hollow organs, nonstriated, involuntary

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skeletal muscle:

-attached to ___

-straited/ nonstriated, ____ contractions

bones, striated, voluntary

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properties of bones:

-___: muscles shorten

-____: muscles lengthen

-____: response to stimuli

contractibility, extensibility, excitability

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muscle fiber microanatomy:

-multinucleated, meaning _____

-____: densely packed sacromeres

-sacromeres made up of ______

contain multiple nuclei to produce more proteins, myofibrils, thin & thick filaments

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sacromeres: 

-Z disc:

-M line: 

line ends of sacromere, anchor thin filaments, center of sacromere, anchor thick filaments

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thick filaments made up of ____ ___

-tails group together into thick filaments

-heads bind to ___ ___ to form __ __

myosin protein, thin filaments, cross bridge

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thin filaments made up of __ ___

actin protein

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regulatory proteins regulate:

cross bridge formation

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striations form from:

overlap of thick & thin filaments

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neural control:

-somatic neurons travel from ____ to ____ ___

-neurotransmitter junction:

CNS, skeletal muscle, contact point between motor neuron and muscle fiber

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sarcoplasmatic reticulum

-surrounds each ___

-stores and releases ___

-attach to t-tubules, which penetrate through plasma membrane

myofibril, Ca+

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t-tubules:

-forms ___ network

-___ continuous throughout extracellular surface

-transmit ___ ___ to cell interior

-initiate Ca+ release from _____ _____

neural, lumen, electrical signals, sarcoplasmatic reticulum

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action potential:

-at rest, the plasma membrane is polarized: ____ charge inside, ____ charge outside

negative, positive

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depolarization: allows for ___ ___

-____ stimulus opens up Na+ ion channel

-allows Na+ ions to flow through, increase/ decrease internal charge

-wave of depolarization spreads from one ___ to the next

muscle contraction, electrical, increase, t tubule

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tropomyosin

regulatory protein in thin filaments

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low calcium in cytoplasm causes tropomyosin to:

block actin active site. myosin can’t bind, which prevents muscle contraction

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high calcium in cytoplasm causes tropomyosin to:

move away from active site, allowing for myosin binding to thin filament, causing muscle contraction

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how does crossbridge work

calcium ions need to be released by sarcoplasmatic reticulum. tropomyosin moves away from actin active site. myosin head binds to actin and pulls towards the M line, allowing for overlap of myosin over thin filamenth

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what does ATP do in the crossbridge process

ATP is required to break the myosin to actin bond

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repolarization: causes ___ ___

-___ ions leaves cell during repolarization

-decreased/ increased internal charge

-regulatory proteins return to actin site and prevent muscle contraction

muscle relaxation, K+, decrease

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refractory period: muscle fibers can’t be stimulated

-___ gets pumped in while ____ gets pumped out to reset charge

Na+, K+

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rigor mortis: _____ that happens 3-4 hrs after death

-muscles still perform contractions due to:

-because ATP is no longer synthesized, ___

muscle contraction, leakage of Ca+ from sarcoplasmatic reticulum, cross bridge can’t be broken and contraction remains