The Muscular System
The Muscular System
The Muscular System
There are three types of muscle tissue the skeletal tissue, cardiac tissue, and smooth muscles.
SKELETAL MUSCLES
Skeletal muscle fibers are package into the organs called skeletal muscles that attach into the body skeleton. Skeletal muscles is also known as striated muscle because its fibers appears to be striped, and as voluntary muscles because it Is only the muscle type subject to conscious control. Skeletal muscle fibers, like most living cells, are soft
Each muscle fibers is enclosed in a delicate connective tissues sheath called an ENDOMYSIUM. Several sheathed muscle fibers are then wrapped by a coarser fibrous membrane called PERIMYSIUM to form a bundle of fibers called a FASCICLE. Many fascicles are bound together by an even tougher overcoat of connective tissues called an epimysium, which covers the entire muscle. The epimysia blend into the strong, cord called TENDONS, or into sheet like APONEUROSES , which attached muscles
SMOOTH MUSCLES
Smooth muscles has no striations and is involuntary, which means that we cannot consciously control it.
Found mainly in the walls of : stomach
Smooth muscles propels substances along a definite tract, or pathway with in the body. We best can describe smooth muscle using the terms visceral, non striated and involuntary.
CARDIAC MUSCLES
Cardiac muscles is found only one place in the body in the heart. The heart serves as a pump, propelling blood into the blood vessels and into the all tissues of the body. Cardiac muscles is like skeletal muscles in that it is involuntary and cannot be consciously controlled by most of us. Important key words to jog our memory for this muscle type are cardiac, striated and involuntary.
MUSCLE FUNCTIONS
MUSCLE plays four important roles in the body: it produces movements, maintains posture, stabilized joints and generates heat
MYOFILAMENTS a thread like protein within each of our boxcar sarcomeres Two types : THICK FILAMENTS - are made mostly of bundled molecules of the protein myosin THIN FILAMENTS are composed of the contractile protein called actin. Also called actin filaments. SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM - a specialized smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
Muscle cells have some special functional properties that enable them to perform their duties.
THE NERVE STIMULUS AND THE ACTION POTENTIALS KEY WORDS AND MEANINGS : MOTOR UNIT one neuron and all the skeletal muscle cells it stimulates NEUROMASCULAR JUNCTIONS is called when a long thread like extension of the neuron, reaches the muscle, each of which forms junctions with the sarcolemma of a different muscle cells. SYNAPTIC CLEFT the gap between junctions that is filled with tissue
NEUROTRANSMITTERS a chemical reaction when the nerve impulse reaches the axonal terminals ACETYLCHOLINE the specific neurotransmitter that stimulates skeletal muscle cells. ACTION POTENTIALS upset that generates an electrical current.
When muscle fibers are activated by the nervous system, the cross bridges attached to myosin binding sites on the thin filaments, and the sliding begins.
MUSCLE RESPONSE TO INCREASINGLY RAPID STIMULATION MUSCLE TWITCHES Muscle twitches (single, brief, jerky, contractions ) sometimes occurs as a result ff certain nervous system problems. When the muscle is stimulate so rapidly that no evidence of relaxation is seen and the contractions are completely smooth and sustained is said to be in fused or complete tetanus or in tetanic contraction. Until this point is reached the muscles is to be exhibiting unfused or incomplete tetanus
MUSCLE TONE
a state of continuous partial contraction a result of different muscle units, which are scattered through the muscle, being stimulated by the nervous system in a systemic ways.
SPECIAL MOVEMENTS