Muscle Mastery
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Where is cardiac muscle found?

  • GI tract
  • Heart (correct)
  • Tongue
  • Bones and joints

What is the motility function of cardiac muscle?

  • Pacing in SA node
  • Conduction of electrical activity
  • Contraction of atria and ventricles (correct)
  • Closing of valves

What is the cellular structure of cardiac muscle?

  • Mononucleated cells (correct)
  • Branching strands
  • Large multinucleated cells
  • Contain gap junctions

What is the function of intercalated disks in cardiac muscle?

<p>Contain gap junctions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the ratio of actin to myosin in cardiac sarcomeres?

<p>3:1 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main energy metabolism pathway in cardiac muscle?

<p>Oxidative metabolism (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the effect of catecholamines on cardiac contraction?

<p>Positive inotropy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do cardiac action potentials differ from skeletal action potentials?

<p>Different in different regions of the heart (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does cardiac muscle contraction differ from skeletal muscle contraction?

<p>Contract coincident with action potential (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Can cardiac muscle be tetanized?

<p>No (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle is innervated by the autonomic nervous system and is sensitive to hormones like epinephrine?

<p>Cardiac muscle (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle does not contract on its own and is insensitive to hormones on a short-time basis?

<p>Skeletal muscle (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle is found in the GI tract, vascular system, pulmonary system, skin, urinary tract, and reproductive system?

<p>Smooth muscle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle has small distinct cells that are mononucleated and elongated in a 'football' shape?

<p>Smooth muscle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle has no sarcomeres, no t-tubules, and rarefied SR?

<p>Smooth muscle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle contracts in all dimensions as opposed to linear contraction in skeletal and cardiac muscle?

<p>Smooth muscle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of smooth muscle has cells that act independently and few gap junctions?

<p>Multiunit smooth muscle (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of smooth muscle has cells that contract together and many gap junctions?

<p>Single unit smooth muscle (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle relies on Ca++ from outside and some from the SR for excitation-contraction coupling?

<p>Smooth muscle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of muscle requires dephosphorylation of myosin via phosphatase activity for relaxation?

<p>Skeletal muscle (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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