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Ch.6 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   A connective tissue sheath that surrounds each skeletal muscle  
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Fascia   Another connective tissue located outside the epimysium. Surrounds and separates muscles  
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Perimysium   Loose connective tissue that surrounds muscle fasciculi (fascicle)  
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A muscle is composed of...   Numerous visible bundles known as muscle fasciculi (fascicle)  
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The fasciculi are composed of...   Fibers  
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Fibers   Single muscle cells  
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Endomysium   A connective tissue sheath that surrounds each fiber  
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Myofibrils...   Fill the cytoplasm of each fiber  
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Myofibrils   A threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other  
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2 major kinds of protein fibers that myofibrils consist of   Actin myofilaments, myosin myofilaments  
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Actin myofilaments   Thin myofilaments  
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Myosin myofilaments   Thick myofilaments  
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Form highly ordered units called sarcomeres   Actin and myosin myofilaments  
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Sarcomere is the...   Basic structural & functional unity of the muscle  
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Resting membrane potential   The charge difference across the membrane  
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Action potential   The brief reversal back of the charge  
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Motor neurons   Nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers  
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Each branch that connects to the muscle forms a ___________ _________ or ________ near the center of the cell.   Neuromusclular junction or synapse  
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Motor unit   A single motor neuron & all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates  
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Presynaptic terminal   Enlarged nerve terminal  
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Synaptic cleft   The space between the presynaptic terminal & the muscle cells  
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Postsynaptic terminal   Muscle fiber  
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Each presynaptic terminal contains...   Synaptic vesicles  
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Synaptic vesicles that secrete a neurotransmitter called...   Acetylcholine  
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Every muscle fiber   Cylindrical cell  
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Each muscle fiber...   contains several nuclei  
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Muscles help...   produce heat essential for maintenance of normal body temperature.  
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Action potential reaches nerve terminal   Synaptic vesicles releases acetylcholine into synaptic cleft (by exocytosis)  
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Acetylcholine diffuses across   Synaptic cleft  
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Acetylcholine   binds to receptor molecules in the muscle cell membrane (sarcolemma)  
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Combination of acetylcholine with its receptor   Influx of sodium ions into the muscle fibers  
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The influx of sodium ions into the muscle fibers initiates   Action potential in muscle cell  
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Acetylcholinesterase   The acetylcholine released into the synaptic cleft between the neuron & muscle cell is rapidly broken down by enzymes  
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Name 2 things the enzymatic breakdown ensures   1. One action potential in the neuron yields only one action potential in the skeletal muscle. 2. Only one contraction of the muscle cell  
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Muscle contraction   Occurs as actin & myosin myofilaments slide past one another causing the sarcomeres to shorten.  
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Sarcomeres shorten   muscle shortens  
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Sliding filament mechanism   Sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofilaments during contraction  
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H and I bands   Shorten  
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A bands   Do not change in length  
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Muscle twitch   Contraction of entire muscle  
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Muscle fiber won't respond to stimulus until that stimulus reaches a level called...   Threshold  
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Once the stimulus reaches threshold...   Muscle fiber will contract maximally  
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Reaching threshold and muscles contract maximally known as...   All-or-none response  
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Lag phase   Time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron & the beginning of contraction  
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Contraction phase   Time of contraction  
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Relaxation phase   Time during which the muscle relaxes  
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Tetany   The muscle remains contracted without relaxing  
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Recruitment   The increase in number of motor units being activated  
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ATP is needed for   Energy for muscle contraction  
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ATP is produced   In mitochondria  
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ATP is   Short-lived and unstable  
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ATP stands for   Adenosine triphosphate  
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Creatine phosphate   When at rest they can't stockpile ATP but they can store another high-energy molecule  
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Anaerobic respiration   Without oxygen  
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Aerobic respiration   With oxygen (more efficient)  
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Oxygen debt   Amount of oxygen needed in chemical reactions to convert lactic acid to glucose & replenish the depleted stores of creatine phosphate stores in muscle cells  
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Muscle fatigue   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)   Length of the muscle does not change, but the amount of tension increases during the contraction process  
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Isotonic (equal tension)   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.  
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Fast- twitch fibers   Contract quickly and fatigue quickly. Well adapted to perform anaerobic metabolism  
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Slow-twitch fibers   contract more slowly & are more resistant to fatigue. Better suited for aerobic metabolism  
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Points of attachment of each muscle   Its origin & insertion  
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At the attachment points the muscle is connected to   Bone by a tendon  
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Origin (head)   Most stationary end of the muscle  
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Insertion   End of the muscle undergoing the greatest movement  
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Belly   Portion of the muscle between the origin and the insertion  
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Some muscles have   Multiple origins or head  
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I band   Light area on each side of Z line. Consists of actin  
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A band   Darker central region in each sarcomere. Extends the length of the myosin  
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H zone   Center of the sarcomere (another light area.) Consist of only myosin  
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M line   Dark staining band. Myosin myofilament are anchored in the center of the sarcomere  
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