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skeletal muscle tissue, blood vessels, nerve fibers, connective tissue
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
each skeletal muscle is an organ, made up of several kind of tissues: .. … …, … …., … … , and … …
one nerve, one artery, one or more veins
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
nerve and blood supply: in general, … … , ….. …., and … .. … .. serve each muscle
nerve stimulation, nerve ending, voluntary
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
unlike cells of cardiac and smooth muscle tissues, which can contract without … …, every skeletal muscle fiber is supply with a .. .. that controls its activity (…. control)
rich, energy, oxygen, nutrients, metabolic waste
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
skeletal muscle has a … blood supply → contracting muscle fibers require a huge amount of …. and ….. and …., as well as need to rid of large amounts of … ….
connective tissue sheaths, whole, bursting, strong
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
skeletal muscle tissues are wrapped by … … …, which support each cell and reinforce and hold together the muscle as a …., preventing the bulging muscles from …. during exceptionally …. contractions
epimysium, perimysium and fascicles, endomysium
what are the 3 connective tissue sheaths of skeletal muscle tissues?
epimysium
…. is an “overcoat” of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds the whole muscle
dense irregular, whole
the epimysium is an overcoat of … … connective tissue that surrounds the …. muscle
fascicles, perimysium
within each skeletal muscle, the muscle fibers are grouped into …….
surrounding each fascicle is a layer of fibrous connective tissue called …., which contains blood vessels and fibers
endomysium, fine areolar
… is a sheath of connective tissue that surrounds each individual muscle fiber
it consists of … … connective tissue
individual, fine areolar
the endomysium is a sheath of connective tissue that surrounds each …. muscle fibers
it consists of …. …. connective tissue
from other muscles, other organs
what does the epimysium separate the whole skeletal muscle from?
from another fascicles
what does the perimysium separate the fascicle from?
from another skeletal muscle fiber
what does the endomysium separate the skeletal muscle fiber?
origin
the stationary immoveable or less moveable attachment of a muscle to a bone
insertion
the moveable attachment of a muscle to a bone
insertion, origin
when a muscle contracts, the …. moves toward the ….
continuous, join, muscle, bones
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
all of the connective tissue sheaths are … with one another, as well as with the tendons that …. …. to …..
contract, sheaths, moved
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
when muscle fibers ….., they pull on these …., which transmit the pulling force to the bone to be …..
elasticity
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
the sheaths contribute to the natural … of the muscle tissue
entry, exit, blood vessels, nerve fibers
gross anatomy of the skeletal muscle:
the sheaths provide …. and …. routes for the … … and … … that serve the muscle
long, cylindrical, multiple, sarcolemma
microscopic anatomy of a skeletal muscle fiber:
each skeletal muscle fiber:
is a …., … cell with … nuclei just beneath its … (or plasma membrane)
10 to 100 um, 30 cm
the skeletal muscle fiber is a huge cell with a diameter of …. to …. and a length up to …. long
sarcoplasm, myofibrils, sarcoplasmic reticulum, transverse tubules
what are the 4 unique parts for the skeletal muscle fiber?
glycosides, myogloblin
what does the sarcoplasm contain?
glycosomes
granules of stored glycogen that provide glucose during muscle contraction (in the sarcoplasm)
glycogen, glucose, contraction
the glycosomes in the sarcoplasm are granules of stored …. that provide …. during muscle …..
myoglobin
… is a red pigment that stores oxygen
red, oxygen
the myoglobin is a …. pigment that stores ….
myofibrils
a single muscle fiber that contains hundreds to thousands of …… (1-2 um) that run parallel to its length
they account for about 80% of cellular volume
they also contain the contractile elements of the skeletal muscle fiber: the sarcomere, which contains even smaller structures called myofilaments
1,2, parallel, 80, sarcomere, myofilaments
a single muscle fiber contains hundred to thousands of myofibrils (….-….. um) that run …. to its length
they account for about ….% of cellular volume
myofibrils contain the contractile elements of the skeletal muscle fiber, the ….., which contains even smaller structures called ……
sarcolemma, sarcoplasm, terminal cisternae, sarcoplasmic reticulum
transverse tubules (T tubules):
…. invaginates into the …. forming T tubules
in either side of the T tubules are …. …, which are the enlargement of the … …..
dark A band, H zone, vertically, M line
the myofibrils contain a … … …, each has a lighter region called … …, each H zone is bisected …. by a dark line called the …. …
light I band, Z disc
the myofibrils also has a … … …, each has a midline called … …
sarcomere
the region of a myofibril between 2 successive Z disc is a …. (2 um long)
2 um
how long is a sarcomere?
thin
are thick or thin filaments present in the light band?
thick
are thick or thin filaments present in the H zone?
thick and thin filaments overlap
are thick or thin filaments present in the A band?
perpendicular, thick, M
in the H zone, proteins run …. to … filaments to form the … line
sarcomere
what is the functional unit of the skeletal muscle fiber?
thick, thin
what are the 2 types of myofilaments?
16 um
how long are the thick filaments in diameter?
myosin, 2, 4, polypeptide chains
the thick filaments are composed of the protein ……, which consists of … heavy and … light …. ….
tail, 2 globular heads
the myosin has a … attached by a flexible hinge to … … …
2 intertwined, heavy
the tail of the myosin consists of … … helical polypeptide ….. chains
2 light
the globular heads are associated with … … chains
actin-binding, ATP-binding, ATPase, splits, ATP, contraction
the globular head of the myosin contains:
the …-….. sites
the …. ….. sites
….. activity that … … to generate energy for muscle ….
7-8 um
how thick are the thin filaments?
filamentous actin, tropomyosin, troponin
what are the 3 thing that the thin filaments are composed of?
g-actin
the filamentous actin (F actin) is a polymer made by subunits of …..
polypeptide, actin, relaxed, blocks
the tropomyosin is a … that spiral around the …. filament and help stabilize it
when the muscle is …., tropomyosin ….. the myosin-binding site of the actin → myosin head on the thick filament cannot bind to the thin filament
globular 3
troponin is a … … polypeptide complex
TnI, TnT, TnC
what are the 3 polypeptides of troponin?
inhibitory, actin
TnI is an … subunit that binds to …..
tropomyosin, position
TnT binds to …. and helps …. it on actin
calcium ions
TnC binds …. …..
TnI
… is an inhibitory subunit that binds to actin
TnT
….. binds to tropomyosin and helps position it on actin
TnC
… binds calcium ions
troponin, tropomyosin
both … and … help control the myosin-actin interactions involved in contraction
center, sarcomere, sides, myofilament band
myosin tails are arranged to point toward the … of the …, and the heads point to the …. of the … ….
tubules, longitudinal, myofibrils, H zone
the sarcoplasmic reticulum contains …. which run … along the …., communicating with each other at the … ….
sarcoplasmic reticulum
the … .. contains tubules which run longitudinally along the myofibrils, communicating with each other at the H zone
intracellular, calcium, contract
the sarcoplasmic reticulum regulates …. levels of …. and stores calcium and releases it on demand when the muscle fiber is stimulated to ……
sarcoplasmic reticulum
the … … regulates intracellular levels of calcium and stores calcium and releases it on demand when the muscle fiber is stimulated to contact
sarcolemma, A band, I band, terminal cisternae, sarcoplasmic reticulum
the t-tubules are made by protruding deep in the …. into the sarcoplasm at each … … - … … junction and on either sides of the t-tubules are … … which are enlargement of the … ….
t-tubules
the .-.. are made by protruding deep in the sarcolemma into the sarcoplasm at each A band-I band junction and on either side of this are terminal cisternae, which are enlargement of the sarcoplasmic reticulum
terminal cisternae, t-tubule, terminal cisternae
what made up a triad?
nerve-initiated electrical impulses, sarcolemma, sarcolemma, triads, calcium, sarcoplasmic reticulum
muscle contraction is controlled by …. - ….. …. … that travel along the ….
because the t-tubules are a continuation of the …, t-tubules conduct electrical impulses to …, which signal for the release of …. form the …. …..
the skeletal muscle fiber must be activated upon nerve ending stimulation and after that a change in membrane potential occurs
physiology of the skeletal muscle fiber:
what is the 1st step for a skeletal muscle fiber to contract?
the electrical impulse must generate a electrical current (called action potential) in its sarcolemma
physiology of the skeletal muscle fiber:
what is the 2nd step for a skeletal muscle fiber to contract?
the action potential must be propagated along the sarcolemma
physiology of the skeletal muscle fiber:
what is the 3rd step for a skeletal muscle fiber to contract?
calcium must be released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, rise briefly in the sarcoplasm, providing the final stimulus for contraction (cross bridges of myosin)
physiology of the skeletal muscle fiber:
what is the 4th step for a skeletal muscle fiber to contract?
nerve
the somatic motor neurons are ….. cells that activate skeletal muscle fibers
somatic motor neurons
the … … .. are nerve cells that activate skeletal muscle fibers
brain, spinal cord, axons, innervate
the somatic motor neurons are located in the … or … .., but their …. travel to the muscle cells they …..
somatic motor neurons
the … …. … are located in the brain or spinal cord, but their axons travel to the muscle cells they innervate
neuromuscular junction, end plate
each axon of the somatic motor neurons ending off several branches that collectively form a …. …. or … … with a single muscle fiber
presynaptic axon terminal, synaptic cleft, postsynaptic functional folds of the sarcolemma
the neuromuscular junction includes:
synaptic vesicles, neurotransmitter acetylcholine
within the axon terminal are … …, which contains the … .. (ACh)
motor unit
a … .. consists of one motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates
one motor neuron, muscle fibers, innervates
a motor unit consists of … … .. and all the … … it ….
nerve impulse, axon, axon terminal, Ach, synaptic cleft
step 1 of the neuromuscular junction:
when a … …. reaches the end of the …, the … … releases … into the …. ….
Ach, synaptic cleft, Ach receptors, sarcolemma, muscle fiber
step 2 of the neuromuscular junction:
…. diffuses across the … … and attaches to the … … located in the …. of the … …
Ach, receptor, electrical, action potential
step 3 of the neuromuscular junction:
… binding to … triggers …. events that generate an …. ….
acetyl cholinesterase
Ach effects finishes by … …, an enzyme located in the synaptic cleft
chemically gated channels, Na+, K+, in, out
generation of an action potential in a skeletal muscle fiber:
1) binding of Ach to its receptor at the neuromuscular junctions opens …. … …, that allow … and … to pass → Na+ is coming ….. and K+ is going ….
transient, membrane potential, interior, sarcolemma, negative, depolarization, end plate potential
generation of an action potential in a skeletal muscle fiber:
2) a … change in the … … occurs at the … of the .. becomes less … → …..
initially, depolarization is a local event called an …. …. ….
end plate potential, -60 mv, action potential, voltage gated Na+ channels
generation of an action potential in a skeletal muscle fiber:
3) if the … .. .. reaches the threshold (… ….), an … .. is generated —> … … .. .. open by depolarization
Na+, electrochemical gradient
generation of an action potential in a skeletal muscle fiber:
… enters following its … ….
action potential, sarcolemma, all, adjacent, voltage gated Na+ channels
propagation of the action potential:
1) the … … propagates along the length of the … in …. directions by spreading to …. membrane areas and opening … … .. …
repolarization
… is the restoring of the sarcolemma to its initial resting potential
restoring, sarcolemma, initial
repolarization is the … of the … to its …. resting potential
changes, membrane permeability
depolarization is a consequence of …. in …. ….
Na+, close, K+, open, out, negative
repolarization
… channels … and … channels … —> since K+ is higher inside the cell than outside, K+ diffuses …. of the muscle fiber, restoring the …. charge inside
refractory, stimulated, repolarization
repolarization:
during the depolarization, the muscle fiber is in a ….. period because the cell cannot be … again until … is complete
electrical, resting
repolarization restores the … conditions of the ….. state
repolarization
…. restores the electrical conditions of the resting state
Na+/K+ ATPase, ionic, resting
repolarization:
the …. pump restores the … condition of the … state