Muscle & Nervous Tissues

CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Muscle Tissues: A. General Characteristics 1. Muscle cells (aka, myocytes or muscle fibers), can contract and include three major types. 2. All muscle cells contain two proteins that can slide past each other, called actin and myosin. When they slide past each other, the cell is shortened, and the muscle contracts.

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CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. B. Skeletal Muscle Tissue 1. Skeletal muscle is attached to bone and can be controlled by conscious effort (voluntary). 2. The cells (aka, muscle fibers, or myocytes) are long and cylindrical, striated (they appear striped due to the regular arrangement of actin and myosin fibers), have many nuclei and contract when a nerve impulse sends them a message from the brain.

CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. C. Smooth Muscle Tissue 1. Smooth muscle tissue lacks striations (because the actin & myosin fibers are lined up randomly in the cell), it is uninucleate, and it consists of spindle-shaped cells. 2. This involuntary muscle is found in the walls of internal organs, such as the digestive tract, blood vessels, iris of the eye, and urinary bladder.

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CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. D. Cardiac Muscle Tissue 1. Cardiac muscle tissue is found only in the heart and consists of branching fibers that are connected to each other with intercalated disks. These connections allow the contraction to spread across the entire heart simultaneously, making a unified heartbeat. 2. This involuntary muscle has a single nucleus in each cell but appears striated.

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CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Nervous Tissues: A. Nervous tissues are found in the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and in clusters of cells called ganglia. B. Neurons, or nerve cells, conduct nervous impulses while helper cells, called neuroglia, support and nourish the neurons. C. Neurons have two main types of extensions: multiple dendrites, which gather incoming messages from other neurons, and a single axon that sends an outgoing message to other neurons.

CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Neural Communication: A. Neurons communicate with both electrical impulses and chemical messages. B. The electrical impulse occurs along the length of a single neuron – it is properly called an “action potential.” A wave of electric charge flows down the axon from the cell body, sending a signal to the tips of the axon (the “axon terminals”). C. Chemical messages are sent between different neurons, at the synapse. When an electric impulse reaches the axon terminal, it secretes neurotransmitter molecules which carry the message to the next neuron. The space between neurons that the neurotransmitters must cross is called the synaptic cleft.

CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc CopyrightThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Neuroglia: A. The nervous system also depends on cells called glia to assist the neurons. B. While neurons actually communicate with each other, the glia simply help neurons in a variety of ways (although recent evidence suggests they may also play a role in communication). C. Glial cells support neurons by: helping move nutrients and wastes between neurons and the blood stream, insulating neurons, speeding up action potentials, and more.

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Organs are Made of Tissues!!! Tissues Combine into Organs!!!