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Chapter 9: Muscles and Muscle Tissue
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Muscle Functions Producing Movement Maintaining Posture
Stabilizing Joints Generating Heat
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3 Types of Muscle Skeletal Muscle Cardiac Muscle Smooth Muscle
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Skeletal Muscle attaches to bones which form levers
used for bodily movement
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Cardiac Muscle forms the heart
used to pump blood through circulatory system
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Smooth Muscle lines gut and blood vessels
controls diameter of these tubes and in gut helps to propel the digested food
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Cells Connected by Intercalated Discs or Gap Junctions?
Property Skeletal Muscle Cardiac Muscle Smooth Muscle Striations? Yes Yes No Nuclei per Cell Many Single Cells Connected by Intercalated Discs or Gap Junctions?
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Relative Speed of Contraction
Property Skeletal Muscle Cardiac Muscle Smooth Muscle Relative Speed of Contraction Fast Intermediate Slow Voluntary Control? Yes No No Control of Contraction Nerves Beats spontaneously but modulated by nerves Nerves Hormones Stretch
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Muscle cells Large, long cells called FIBERS
Contain two types of proteins--actin and myosin Excitable (irritable), contractile, extensible, and elastic Myo-, mys, or Sarco code for muscle
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Skeletal Muscle Anatomy
Rich blood supply to center of muscle, branch to capillaries sheathing cells Rich nerve supply, branching into each muscle, ending one branch to each muscle fiber
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Structure of Skeletal Muscle
Cigar shaped, multinucleate cells Packed with myofilaments made of actin and myosin creating visible bands (striations) Varied length, may be over a foot long
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Structure cont. Surrounded by dense, fibrous Connective tissue (CT) sheaths Endomysium around each fiber Perimysium around bundles of fibers (fascicles) Epimysium around all fascicles
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Figure 6. 1 Connective tissue wrappings of skeletal muscle
Figure 6.1 Connective tissue wrappings of skeletal muscle. © 2000 The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company
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Microscopic structure
Muscle fibers filled with Sarcoplasm Glycogen and myoglobin Nuclei pushed to the edge of sarcolemma by long protein strands that run length of the cell, myofibrils Composed of contractile units, sarcomeres, made of myofilaments
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Figure 6. 3 Anatomy of a skeletal muscle cell (fiber)
Figure 6.3 Anatomy of a skeletal muscle cell (fiber). (a) A portion of a muscle fiber. One myofibril has been extended. (b) Enlarged view of a myofibril showing its banding pattern. (c) Enlarged view of one sarcomere (contractile unit) of a myofibril. (d) Structure of the thick and thin myofilaments found in the sarcomeres. © 2000 The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company
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Myofilaments Two types--actin and myosin -Filaments are clusters of actin and myosin Actin forms thin filaments Myosin forms thick filaments
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Sarcomere structure Alternating dark and light bands
Lateral dark bands--A-band End in light I-bands, with Z-line in center marking joint with next sarcomere on each side
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Muscle Contraction Sarcomere - basic unit of muscle contraction
Skeletal and cardiac muscle are striated The striations are caused by alignment of bands: the most prominent are the A and I bands and the Z line The unit between 2 Z lines is called the sarcomere
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Muscle Contraction-Sarcomere
In the A band the 2 proteins overlap The I band contains only the actin protein When muscle contracts the sarcomere shortens and the Z lines move closer together
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Muscle Contraction-relaxed state
When Muscle Contracts Protein Filaments Slide Together Thin filaments: actin, attached to Z line, found in both A and I bands Thick filaments: myosin, found in A band Relaxed state:
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Muscle Contraction-Contracted state
When muscle contracts the actin filaments slide into the A band, overlapping with myosin
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Muscle Contraction-Contracted state
Notice what happens when muscle contracts: a) the Z lines move closer together b) the I band becomes shorter c) the A band stays at the same length This is called the "sliding filament" model of muscle contraction
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Muscle Contraction-Crossbridge
The filaments slide together because myosin attaches to actin and pulls on it myosin head(H) attaches to actin filament (A), forming a crossbridge After the crossbridge is formed the myosin head bends, pulling on the actin filaments and causing them to slide:
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Actin Molecule
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