Lecture slide presentation for Anatomy and Physiology topic of muscle tissue. Based on the OpenStax text.
Sections Include:
10.1 Overview of Muscle Tissues
10.2 Skeletal Muscle
10.3 Muscle Fiber Contraction and Relaxation
10.4 Nervous System Control of Muscle Tension
10.5 Types of Muscle Fibers
10.6 Exercise and Muscle Performance
10.7 Cardiac Muscle Tissue
10.8 Smooth Muscle
10.9 Development and Regeneration of Muscle Tissue
5. Connective Tissue
Layers
• Epimysium
• Wraps entire muscle
• Separates it from others
• Allows contraction while maintaining stability
• Perimysium
• Surrounds Fascicles
• Common in limbs
• Allows movement of specific muscles
• Endomysium
• Contains extracellular fluid and nutrients
• Aponeurosis
• Fascia
• Connective tissue between skin and bones
7. The Sarcomere
• Functional unit of a muscle fiber
• Region of one Z-line to the next Z-
line
• 2 micrometers in length
• Thin filaments
• Action + troponin-tropomyosin
• Thick filaments
• Myosin
8. The Neuromuscular Junction
• Site where motor neuron meets muscle fiber
• Muscles first response is here
• Excitation by Neuron is the only functional way to activate
contraction
• Excitation-Contraction Coupling
• Skeletal muscles must be “excited” in order to contract
• The excitation sweeps along the sarcolemma as a wave
9. Excitation-Contraction
Coupling
• Begins with signals from
Somatic Nervous System
• Excitation is always triggered
by nervous system
• Action potential travels Axon
of motor neuron
• Terminates at NMJ
• Acetylcholine is released
• Neurotransmitter
• Crosses Synaptic cleft
• Binds to receptors leading to
depolarization
10. Excitation-Contraction
Coupling
• Voltage-Gated sodium
channels
• Open and Sodium enters
Muscle fiber
• Excess Ach degraded
• Acetylcholinesterase
• T-Tubules
• Propagate signal
• Allow action potential to reach
membrane of SR
• Carry action potential to
interior of the cell
• Triads surround Myofibrils
14. Sliding Filament Model
• Thin filaments are pulled
• Slide past thick filaments
• Only occurs when Myosin
binding sites are exposed
• Normally covered by
Tropomyosin
• Calcium binds to troponin
• Causes tropomyosin to slide
away
• Myosin heads bind to form
cross bridge
15. Sliding Filament Model
• Z lines move together
• I band comes smaller
• A band stays the same
• H zone shrinks
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16. ATP and Muscle Contraction
• Active site is on actin is
exposed
• This happens as Calcium
binds to troponin
• Myosin head binds to actin
and forms cross bridge
• Phosphate is released
during power stroke
• Causes myosin head to pivot
towards center of sarcomere
• ADP and Phosphate are
released
17. ATP and Muscle Contraction
• New ATP attaches
• Causes cross bridge to detach
• Myosin hydrolyzes ATP
• Forms ADP
• Returns Myosin to cocked
position
18. Muscle Metabolism
• ATP is critical for:
• Cross-bridge cycle
• Active transport of Calcium
• Creatine Phosphate
• Stores energy in phosphate
bonds
• In resting muscle, excess ATP
transfers energy to Creatine
• Creatine Kinase breaks it
down
• 15 seconds worth of energy
19. Muscle Metabolism
• Glycolysis is Next
• Anaerobic process
• Slower rate of ATP availability
• Aerobic respiration
• 95% of ATP required for resting
or moderately active muscles
• Oxygen Debt
• Intense muscle activity
• Amount of oxygen needed to
compensate for ATP produced
without oxygen
• Needed to: restore ATP and
Creating phosphate levels,
Convert lactic acid to pyruvic
acid or glucose/glycogen in liver
20. Relaxation and Strength
• Relaxation begins with Motor
neuron
• ACh release stops
• Muscle fiber repolarizes
• Calcium gates close
• Actin-binding sites are shielded
• Muscle strength
• Number of muscles fibers is
genetically determined
• Strength related to myofibrils and
sarcomeres
• Can increase as a result of
hormones and stress
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21. Nervous System
Control of
Muscle Tension:
Objectives
Explain concentric, isotonic, and eccentric
contractions
Explain
Describe the length-tension relationship
Describe
Describe the three phases of a muscle twitch
Describe
Define wave summation, tetanus, and treppe
Define
22. Types of Muscle Contractions
• Muscle tension
• Force generated by contraction
• Isotonic
• Tension in muscle stays constant
• Concentric Contraction
• Muscle shortens to move load
• Eccentric contraction
• Muscle lengthens
• Isometric
• Muscle produces tension without
changing angle
23. Motor Units
• Group of muscle fibers
innervated by a single motor
neuron
• Size depends on nature of muscle
• Small motor units
• Single motor neuron supplies small
number of muscle fibers
• Fine motor control
• Eye muscles
• Large Motor Unit
• Single motor neuron supplies large
number of muscle fibers
• Gross movements
• Recruitment
• As more strength is needed,
additional motor units are activated
• Increases contraction force
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24. Sarcomere Length-Tension
Range
• Maximal tension occurs at
80-120% of a sarcomeres
resting length
• Longer=thick and thin
filaments don’t overlap
• Shorter=Zone of overlap is
reduced , thin filaments can’t
go anywhere
25. Frequency of Motor Neuron
Stimulation
• Single stimulus produce single
contraction
• Called a twitch
• A few to 100 milliseconds
• Tension measure with myogram
• Latent period
• Action potential propagates
• Contraction phase
• Calcium binds troponin
• Cross bridges form
• Relaxation phase
• Contraction stops
• Muscle fibers return to rest
26. Wave Summation and
Tetanus
• Wave summation
• Fibers stimulated while
previous twitch is still
occurring
• Excitation-contraction coupling
affects are added together
• Occurs because second
stimulus causes more calcium
to be released
• Tetanus
• Continuous contraction
• Calcium allows all sarcomeres
to form cross-bridges
27. Treppe
• Muscle tension increases in
graded manner
• Muscles dormant for extended
periods
• Muscle contractions become
more efficient
• Only maintained with steady
ATP
28. Muscle Tone
• Muscles are contracted
small amounts
• Few motor units are activated
at any given time
• Prevents fatigue
• Hypotonia
• Flaccid muscles
• Functional impairments
• Hypertonia
• Muscle rigidity
• Excessive reflex responses
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30. Types of Muscle
Fibers
• Slow oxidative
• Contract slowly
• Use aerobic respiration
• Fast oxidative
• Fast contraction
• Aerobic respiration
• Can switch to anaerobic
• Fast glycolytic
• Fast contraction
• Anaerobic glycolysis
• Fatigue more quickly
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32. Endurance
Exercise
• Predominately slow fibers
• Little force but numerous
repetitions
• Training makes fibers more
efficient
• More mitochondria produced
• Myoglobin increases (Oxygen
storage)
• Angiogenesis to supply more
oxygen and remove waste
33. Resistance
Exercise
• Fast glycolytic fibers
• Short, powerful movements
• Muscles have higher ratio of
FG to SO/FO
• Increases myofibril
formation
• Increases thickness of muscle
• Leads to hypertrophy
• No increased mitochondria
or angiogenesis
34. Performance
Enhancing Substitutes
• Anabolic steroids
• Stimulate muscle formation
• Oxygen availability
• Erythropoietin
• Human Growth Hormone
• Promotes muscle healing
• Faster recovery
• Creatine
• Provides quick bursts of ATP
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36. Cardiac Muscle
• Found only in Heart
• Striated
• Sarcomeres
• Intercalated disc
• Allows cardiac muscle cells to contract in wave like
pattern
• Desmosomes
• Anchors the ends of cardiac muscle fibers together
• Autorhythmicity
• Pacemaker cells control contraction of the heart
37. Smooth
Muscle:
Objectives
Describe a dense body
Describe
Explain how smooth muscle works with internal
organs and passageways through the body
Explain
Explain how smooth muscles differ from skeletal
and cardiac muscle
Explain
Explain the difference between single-unit and
multi-unit smooth muscle
Explain
38. Smooth Muscle
• Found in walls of hollow organs
• Spindle shaped fibers
• 30 to 200 micrometers in length
• No striations
• Do contain thick and thin filaments
• Dense body
• Analogous to the Z-disc
• Anchors thin filaments
• Calmodulin
• Regulates cross bridges
• Calcium binds, activates myosin
kinase
• Activates myosin heads
39. Smooth Muscle
Contraction
• Once myosin is activated:
• Myosin attaches to Actin
• Pulls on thin filaments
• Dense bodies are pulled on
• Ends of muscle pull towards center
• T-tubules are not required
• Smaller diameter muscles
• Long function periods mean:
• Power output is low
• Contractions continue without
using lots of energy
• Latch bridges
• Smooth muscles can maintain
contraction when Calcium is
removed
40. Involuntary Control
• NMJs are not as organized
as skeletal muscle
• Varicosity
• Series of neurotransmitter-
filled bulges
• Release neurotransmitters into
synaptic cleft
• Pacesetter cell
• Spontaneously trigger action
potentials and contractions
41. Involuntary Control
• Single-Unit smooth muscle
• More common
• Muscle fibers joined by gap
junctions
• Muscle contracts as single unit
• Visceral muscle
• Stress-relaxation response
• Stretching triggers contraction
• Multi-unit smooth muscle
• Not electrically coupled
• Large blood vessels
43. Muscle Development and
Regeneration
• Embryonic Mesoderm
• Skeletal muscle develops
from Mesodermal somites
• Skeletal muscle in head
and limbs develop from
General mesoderm
• Somites
• Give rise to myoblasts
• Myoblast
• Muscle forming stem cell
• Migrates and fuse to form
Myotube
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44. Muscle Development and
Regeneration
• Satellite cell
• Similar to Myoblast
• Incorporated into muscle cells
• Facilitate protein synthesis
• Repair and growth
• Fibrosis
• Muscle fibers replaced by scar
tissue
• Pericyte
• Stem cell that regenerates smooth
muscle
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