Skeletal Muscle Physiology How do contractions occur? Remember that muscles are excitable.

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Skeletal Muscle Physiology How do contractions occur? Remember that muscles are excitable

Electrochemical gradient Both neurons and muscle cells maintain electrochemical gradients across their plasma membranes: a charge difference exists, like between poles of a battery. Intracellular fluid is negatively charged

Electrochemical gradient

How does skeletal muscle contract?: Requires a stimulus from the somatic nervous system to initiate contraction Where does the stimulus come from? Brain/spinal cord -> Motor neuron -> muscle cell –One motor neuron innervates multiple muscle cells

Propagation Transduction Interaction

What do you need to produce a contraction? 1.Must transfer message (action potential) from the neuron throughout the muscle cell (via transverse tubules) 2.Myosin and actin filaments must interact Na + & Ca 2+ Energy to contract –ATP

What is an Action Potential (AP)? A propagated change in the transmembrane potential of excitable cells –This is the message telling the cell to contract! –Initiated by a depolarization of cell membrane. Causes an influx of Na + ions.

rest; Gated channels closed 2.Stimulus arrives! Na + channels open & Na + rushes IN; Depolarization 3.Slow response K + channels open & K + rushes OUT; Repolarization

Connection between nerve & muscle How is a signal transferred from neuron to muscle cell?

Signal transduction 1.AP presynaptic terminal; causes Ca 2+ channels to open 2.Ca 2+ ions enter & stimulate neurotransmitter release (ACh) from synaptic vessicles into synaptic cleft

Signal transduction 3.ACh diffuses across synaptic cleft & binds to ACh receptors on Na + channel proteins in sarcolemma of muscle cell

Signal transduction 4.Influx of Na + ions results in depolarization of postsynaptic membrane; when “threshold” is reached, postsynaptic (muscle) cell fires an AP

Ca 2+ ions released Ca 2+ binds to troponin of thin filaments Allows interaction of thick and thin filaments Causing a contraction

Ca 2+ binds troponin; Troponin – tropomyosin moves; Exposes active sites; Myosin binds to actin

Exposure of attachment sight: Ca 2+ binds to troponin; allows tropomyosin to move, exposing myosin attachment sight Cross-bridge formation: Myosin heads attach to actin subunits. P released

Recovery Stroke: Myosin heads return to resting position. E still stored in myosin head Cross-bridge release: ATP broken down to ADP + P. Myosin head releases ATP regenerated & attached to myosin head: Could be new ATP or phosphorylated ADP from previous step Power Stroke: Stored E in myosin heads used to pull actin filament toward M line. ADP released from myosin head

AP produces Twitch contraction We know single muscle cells contract when AP arrives One single AP stimulus produces a single Twitch –Twitches produce muscle tension –How long does one twitch take?

Single Contraction = Twitch Three phases Latent: AP reaches sarcolemma; SR releases Ca 2+ ; 2ms Contraction: Cross-bridge formation; Ca 2+, troponin; 15ms Relaxation: Ca 2 + uptake; tropomyosin covers actin; 25ms

Recruitment & Summation We know a single AP produces a single Twitch –Twitches produce muscle tension How do twitches achieve whole muscle contraction? By building Tension = Force produced by a contracting muscle 1.Many motor units are stimulated (recruitment) 2.AP’s arrive more frequently (summation)

What happens when AP frequency increases? relaxation phase Complete relaxation phase Incomplete relaxation phase Eliminated

What happens when multiple fibers are stimulated?

Motor units control tension 1 motor unit = all the muscle fibers controlled by a single motor neuron Can the size (of motor units) vary? –Yes! Why would it vary? Size of the muscle Level of control required –Muscles of the eye - precise control; 4-6 fibers per unit –Muscles of the leg - gross control; 1-2k fibers per unit

Motor Units

Motor unit recruitment

What ultimately controls muscle tension? Presence of Ca 2+ ions –More Ca 2+ ions present = more to potentially bind to troponin –Stronger contraction (more tension produced)

Cardiac muscle Heart muscle Cells directly connected via intercalated discs (pores through which ions pass) –Allows all connected cells to contract as one Cardiac muscle is autorhythmic (spontaneous generation of AP) Involuntary (influenced by hormones) Metabolism is always aerobic

Smooth muscle Less actin & myosin, no sarcomeres Contracts slowly –No O 2 debt Autorhythmic Involuntary control