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Study Notes for Anatomy/Physiology Chapter 6 Skeletal Muscles

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Contractility   the ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force  
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Excitability   the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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Extensibility   the ability to be stretched  
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Elasticity   ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched  
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Epimysium   connective tissue sheath that surrounds each skeletal muscle  
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Fascia   connective tissue located outside the epimysium that surrounds and separates muscles  
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Fasciculi   numerous visible bundles that compose muscle  
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Perimysium   loose connective tissue that surrounds the fasciculi  
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Fibers   muscle cells each fiber is a single cylindrical cell containing several nuclei  
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Endomysium   a connective tissue sheath that surrounds each fiber  
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Myofibrils   a threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other fills the cytoplasm of each fiber  
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2 Major Kinds Of Protein Fibers   1. actin myofilaments 2. myosin myofilaments  
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Actin Myofilaments   thin myofilaments they resemble 2 minute strands of pearls twisted together  
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Myosin Myofilaments   thick myofilaments they resemble bundles of minute golf clubs  
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Sarcomeres   highly ordered units formed by actin and myosin myafilaments they are joined end-to-end to form the myofibril  
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The basic structural and functional unit of the muscle   The Sarcomere  
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Z line   an attachment site for actin  
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I band   Consists of actin A light area located on each side of the Z line  
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A band   extends the lenth of the myosin the darker central region in each sarcomere  
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H zone   Consists only of myosin a light area in the center of each sarcomere  
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M line   Dark staining band the center of the sarcomere where myosin myofilaments are anchored  
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Membrane Potential   Resting Membrane Potential Action Potential  
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Resting Membrane Potential   The outside of most cell membranes is positively charged compared to the inside of the cell membrane, which is negatively charged It is the charge difference across the membrane  
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Action Potential   When a muscle cell is stimulated, the membrane characteristics change briefly The brief reversal back of the charge  
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Motor Neurons   nerve cells that carry action potential to skeletal muscle fibers  
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Axons   Enter the muscles and branch  
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Neuromuscular Junction (Synapse)   formed near the center of the cell by each branch that connects to a muscle  
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Motor Unit   a single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates Many form a single muscle  
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formed by an enlarged nerve terminal resting in an indentation of the muscle cell membrane   Neuromuscular Junction  
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Presynaptic Terminal   the enlarged nerve terminal  
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Synaptic Cleft   the space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell  
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Postsynaptic Terminal   the muscle fiber  
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Synaptic vesicles   in each presynaptic terminal secretes a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine  
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Acetylcholine   accumulates in the neurons causes muscle to contract  
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Acetylcholinesterase   causes the muscle to relax  
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Muscle Contraction   occurs as actin and myosin myofilaments slide past one another causing the sarcomeres to shorten when sarcomeres shorten, it causes the muscle to shorten  
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Sliding filament mechanism   the sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofliaments during contraction  
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Bands that shorten   H bands I bands  
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Bands that do not change in length   A bands  
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Muscle twitch   a contraction of an entire muscle in response to a stimulus that causes the action potential in one or more muscle fibers  
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Threshold   the level at which a muscle fiber will respond to stimulus the point the muscle fiber will contract maximally  
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Phenomenon that occurs in the threshold   all-or-none response  
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Lag Phase   the time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron and the beginning of a contraction  
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Contraction Phase   the time of contraction  
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Relaxation Phase   the time during which the muscle relaxes  
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Tetany   the muscle doesn't have time to fully relax  
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Recruitment   the increase in number of motor units being activated  
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ATP   Adenosine triphosphate  
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ADP   Adenosine diphosphate  
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Adenosine Triphosphate   needed for energy for muscle contraction produced in the mitochondria short-lived and unstable degenearagtes to the more stable ADP plus phosphate  
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Creatine Phosphate   high energy molecule stored when muscle cells are at rest  
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Anaerobic respiration   without oxygen  
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Aerobic respiration   with oxygen more efficient  
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Oxygen debt   the amount of oxygen needed in chemical reactions to convert lactic acid to glucose and replenish the depleted stores of creatine phosphate stores in muscle cells  
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Muscle Fatigue   results when ATP is used during muscle contraction faster than it can be produced in the muscle cells  
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2 Types of Muscle contractions   Isometric Isotonic  
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Isometric   equal distance the length of the muscle does not change, but the amount of tension increases during the contraction process  
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Isotonic   equal tension the amount of tension produced by the muscle is constant during contraction, but the length of the muscle changes  
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Muscle Tone   refers to constant tension produced by muscles of the body for long periods of time keeps head up and back straight  
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Fast-twitch Fibers   Contract quickly and fatigue quickly well adapted to perform anaerobic metabolism example: white meat of a chicken's breast  
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Slow-twitch Fibers   Contract more slowly and are more resistant to fatigue they are better suited for aerobic metabolism example: the dark meat of a duck's breast of the legs of a chicken  
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Points of Attachment of Muscles   Origin Insertion At these points, the muscle is connected to bone by a tendon  
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Origin   (the head of the muscle) the most stationary end of the muscle example: shoulder  
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Insertion   the end of the muscle undergoing the greatest movement example: elbow  
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Belly   the portion of the muscle between the origin and the insertion example: arm  
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Synergists   muscles that work together to accomplish specific movements  
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Antagonists   muscles that work in opposition to one another examples: bicep and tricep  
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Prime mover   among a group of synergists, it is the one muscle that plays the major role in accomplishing the desired movement  
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Occipitofrontalis   raises eyebrows  
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Orbicularis Oculi   closes eyelid (crows feet)  
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"Kissing muscles"   Orbicularis Oris Buccinator  
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Orbicularis Oris   Puckers the lips  
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Buccinator   flattens the cheeks ("trumpeter's muscle")  
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Zygomaticus   smiling  
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Levator Labii Superioris   sneering  
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Depressor Anguli Oris   Frowning  
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Mastication   chewing  
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Mastication Muscles   Pterygoids (2pairs) Masseter (1pair) Temporalis (1pair)  
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Tongue and swallowing muscles   important in speech and mastication  
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2 Tongue Muscles   Extrensic Tongue Muscle Intrinsic Tongue Muscle  
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Extensic Tongue Muscle   moves the tongue  
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Intrinsic Tongue Muscle   changes the shape of the tongue  
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sternocleidomastoid   prime mover lateral neck muscle rotates and abducts head  
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