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What is the role of transverse tubules in muscle fibers?
What is the role of transverse tubules in muscle fibers?
What causes the shortening of the I band during muscle contraction?
What causes the shortening of the I band during muscle contraction?
Which statement about actin is correct?
Which statement about actin is correct?
What happens immediately after the power stroke in muscle contraction?
What happens immediately after the power stroke in muscle contraction?
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What is the main function of the titin protein in skeletal muscles?
What is the main function of the titin protein in skeletal muscles?
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How does calcium affect muscle contraction?
How does calcium affect muscle contraction?
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What results in the formation of high energy cross bridges in skeletal muscle?
What results in the formation of high energy cross bridges in skeletal muscle?
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What is the primary reason skeletal muscles are called striated muscles?
What is the primary reason skeletal muscles are called striated muscles?
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What primarily causes the delay in muscle contraction following the initiation of an action potential?
What primarily causes the delay in muscle contraction following the initiation of an action potential?
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Which statement about muscle fibers is true regarding fatigue resistance?
Which statement about muscle fibers is true regarding fatigue resistance?
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What is the role of phosphocreatine in active skeletal muscle?
What is the role of phosphocreatine in active skeletal muscle?
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Which factor is primarily responsible for the increased force a muscle fiber can generate during a twitch?
Which factor is primarily responsible for the increased force a muscle fiber can generate during a twitch?
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What type of contraction occurs when the force generated by the muscle equals the load?
What type of contraction occurs when the force generated by the muscle equals the load?
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Which protein is absent in smooth muscle cells, affecting calcium interaction?
Which protein is absent in smooth muscle cells, affecting calcium interaction?
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What describes the calcium release channel in smooth muscle that is opened by phospholipase C activity?
What describes the calcium release channel in smooth muscle that is opened by phospholipase C activity?
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What determines the duration of a twitch in different muscle fiber types?
What determines the duration of a twitch in different muscle fiber types?
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In which situation would ATP requirements of muscle during heavy exercise likely be met by carbohydrate metabolism?
In which situation would ATP requirements of muscle during heavy exercise likely be met by carbohydrate metabolism?
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What correctly represents the recruitment order of muscle fibers from weak to strong stimulus?
What correctly represents the recruitment order of muscle fibers from weak to strong stimulus?
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Study Notes
Skeletal Muscle Contraction
- Flexors: Muscles that shorten, bringing attached bones closer together.
- Tendons: Attach skeletal muscles to bones.
- Origin: The stationary end of a skeletal muscle.
- Antagonistic Muscles: Flexors contract while their opposing extensors relax for limb movement.
- Transverse Tubules (T-tubules): Rapidly conduct action potentials to the muscle fiber interior.
- Actin: Globular molecules polymerized into filaments.
- Myosin & Actin: Interconnected by cross-bridges that span the gap.
- Striated Muscles: Muscle fibers with repeating light and dark bands called sarcomeres.
- I bands: Contain only thin filaments (actin).
- H zone: Contains only thick filaments (myosin).
- Titin: Stabilizes the position of contractile filaments.
- Sarcomere Shortening: Occurs during muscle contraction, along with I band shortening.
- Cross-bridge Formation: Proportional to the generated tension in a muscle fiber.
- Calcium's Role: Binds to troponin, which moves tropomyosin, allowing high force cross-bridge formation.
- Myosin Head Function: Binding sites for actin and ATP; detaches from actin when ATP binds.
- Power Stroke: Release of ADP immediately follows the power stroke.
- ATP Hydrolysis: Causes myosin to rotate, repositioning it to bind to actin.
- Force Decrease: Lower intracellular calcium levels reduce force.
- DHP Receptor: Detects action potentials traveling along the T-tubule.
- Neuromuscular Junction: Acetylcholine binding opens a channel for Na+ and K+, triggering an action potential.
- Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SR): Ca2+ release from SR triggers the contraction cycle.
- Ca2+ ATPase: Crucial for muscle relaxation, removing Ca2+ from the cytoplasm.
- Latent Period: Delay between action potential and muscle contraction.
- Phosphocreatine: Backup energy molecule quickly converted to ATP in active muscles.
Muscle Energy & Fatigue
- Exercise & ATP: Carbohydrate metabolism during heavy exercise meets ATP needs.
- Muscle Fatigue: Primarily from excitation-contraction coupling failures.
- Extended Exercise Fatigue: Glycogen stores depletion is a primary cause.
- Slow-twitch Fibers: Long contraction duration, high capillary density.
- Myosin ATPase Isoform: Determines the speed of force development.
- Sarcomere Length & Twitch: Sarcomere length before contraction affects twitch tension.
- Motor Unit: One neuron controlling multiple muscle fibers.
- Fast-twitch Motor Units Activation: Activated by weak contractile stimuli.
- Fast-twitch vs Slow-twitch: Fast twitch fibers generate more force, and fatigue faster.
- Isotonic vs Isometric: Isotonic = movement; Isometric = no movement/equal load.
Smooth Muscle
- Smooth Muscle Contraction: Slower and more sustained than skeletal muscle.
- Troponin Lack: Smooth muscle lacks troponin.
- Myosin Light Chain Kinase (MLCK): Ca2+-calmodulin complex activates this enzyme; phosphorylates myosin light chains.
- IP3 Receptor Channel: Opened by increased phospholipase C activity, releasing Ca2+.
- Pharmacomechanical Coupling: Change in smooth muscle tension without electrical potential change.
- Twitch Duration: Determined by the rate of Ca2+ removal.
- Smooth Muscle Energy Use: Low energy use for force generation, sustained contractions with no fatigue.
- Skeletal vs Smooth Muscle Calcium Source: Both sarcoplasmic reticulum and extracellular calcium involved
- Energy Source: Smooth muscle uses a variety of sources, not just oxidative phosphorylation
Muscle Fiber Types & Recruitment
- Fiber Recruitment Order (Weak to Strong Stimulus): Fatigue-resistant slow twitch, fatigue-resistant oxidative fast twitch and glycolytic fast twitch
- Fiber Force Increase: Increasing action potential frequency.
- Fiber Endurance: Oxidative phosphorylation.
- Lever System: Bones act as levers, joints as fulcrums for muscle-bone interactions.
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Test your knowledge on skeletal muscle contraction, including key terms like flexors, tendons, and the mechanisms of cross-bridge formation. This quiz covers the structure and function of muscle fibers, as well as the role of actin and myosin in muscle movement. Discover how sarcomeres and muscle contractions work together to enable movement.
