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Name 3 types of muscle tissue
Non-striated muscle (smooth)
Striated cardiac muscle
Striated skeletal muscle
What is another name for non-striated muscle?
smooth muscle
Which type of muscle tissue has cells that can divide?
Smooth or Non-striated muscle
Which muscle tissue is found in the visceral organs throughout the body?
Smooth/Non-striated muscle
Which muscle tissue exhibits short, spindle like cells with a centralized nucleus?
Smooth/Non-striated muscle
Which muscle tissue is comprised of long, branched fibers composed of many cells stacked end to end; that are too specialized to divide.
Striated Cardiac Muscle
Which muscle tissue is found in the wall of the heart?
Striated Cardiac Muscle
Which muscle tissue is composed of long fibers; each a multi-nucleated cell?
Striated Skeletal Muscle
Which of the 3 muscle tissues is generally a voluntary muscle?
Striated Skeletal Muscle
Which muscle tissue forms the powerfully contracting muscles of the musculoskeletal system?
Striated Skeletal Muscle
Which muscle tissue is identified by multiple nucleii that reside on the cell membrane (not as a central component of the cytosol) ?
Striated Skeletal Muscle
What are the 3 primary functions of muscle tissue?
Movement
Heat Production
Support and Maintain Posture
What are 2 types of muscle fibers when considering how they use oxygen (as discussed in lecture) ?
Fast Twitch
Slow Twitch
Which of the following best describes fast twitch muscle fibers?

a) Powerful muscles with weak endurance.
b) Weak muscles with extended endurance
a) Powerful muscles with weak endurance.
Which of the following best describes slow twitch muscle fibers?

a) Powerful muscles with weak endurance.
b) Weak muscles with extended endurance
b) Weak muscles with extended endurance
What is being described?

Reddish, meat-like.
Well vascularized
Contains many nerves
Where energy is used & produced

a) Muscle Belly
b) Tendon
c) Attachment Sites
a) Muscle Belly
What connects muscle to bone?
Tendon
What is being described?

Tough, glistening white sinews
Minimally vascularized
Consists primarily of parallel collagen fibers

a) Muscle Belly
b) Tendon
c) Attachment Sites
b) Tendon
What is Tendon is made of?

a) Simple squamous epithelium
b) Dense Regular Connective Tissue
c) Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
b) Dense Regular Connective Tissue
True or False

The tissue that is the tendon runs throughout the muscle belly and into the periosteum of bone tissue
True
Which is usually the least mobile portion or area of a muscle?

a) Origin
b) Muscle Belly
c) Attachment
a) Origin
What is being described?

Origin is the fixed, and least mobile aspect.
Insertion is the mobile aspect.
Depending upon movement being performed, origin and insertion can change

a) Muscle Belly
b) Tendon
c) Attachments
c) Attachments
What is the name of a muscle cell or fiber?
Striated skeletal myocyte
Which of the following is active shortening component of a muscle?

a) Attachment site
b) Striated skeletal myocyte
c) Endomysium
b) Striated skeletal myocyte
What has fibers that vary in size, ranging from .1 - .5 micometers in diameter and from a few millimeters to over 30 centimeters in length?
Striated skeletal myocyte
What is another name for striated skeletal myocyte?
Myofibril
Which is loose connective tissue that forms an envelope around each muscle fiber?

a) Endomysium
b) Perimysium
c) Epimysium
a) Endomysium
Which has space for blood & nerve supply?

a) Endomysium
b) Perimysium
c) Epimysium
a) Endomysium
What is the name of the layer that surrounds the individual muscle fiber?
Endomysium
Which is dense irregular connective tissue that forms an envelope around the fasiculus?

a) Endomysium
b) Perimysium
c) Epimysium
b) Perimysium
Which layer gives strength to a bundle of muscle fibers?
Perimysium
What is the name of the layer that surrounds the fasiculus?
Perimysium
Which is dense irregular connective tissue that forms the wrapper around bundles of fasiculi to form the belly of an individual muscle?

a) Endomysium
b) Perimysium
c) Epimysium
c) Epimysium
Which layer is the one that wraps around and defines each muscle?
Epimysium
What do we call dense irregular connective tissue that wraps around a region of muscles in the body?
Fascia
Similarly acting muscles are grouped by a wrapper of tissue called the _________________
Fascia
List the components of muscle from interior to exterior.

a) Fascia, Epimysium, Perimysium, Endomysium, Myofibril

b) Myofibril, Epimysium, Perimysium, Endomysium, Fascia

c) Myofibril, Endomysium, Perimysium, Epimysium, Fascia

d) Myofibril, Perimysium, Endomysium, Epimysium, Fascia
c) Myofibril, Endomysium, Perimysium, Epimysium, Fascia
True or False

The dense irregular CTP of the muscle belly tapers towards the tendons and becomes dense regular CTP as it approaches the origin/attachment sites.
True
As the tendon of a muscle contacts bone, some of its collagen fibers become part of the _____________.

a) Trabecula
b) Perimysium
c) Periosteum
c) Periosteum
The single or multi-directional arrangements of the fasiculi refer to what:

a) Muscle Shape
b) Pennations
c) Myofibrilositiciousness
b) Pennations
Which is more powerful?

a) Pennate
b) Bi-pennate
c) Multi-pennate
c) Multi-pennate
Which is more flexible?

a) Pennate
b) Bi-pennate
c) Multi-pennate
a) Pennate
What is the basic functional unit of the contractile system of the skeletal system?

a) Sarcomere
b) Myofibril
c) Myosin molecules
a) Sarcomere
What is the dense molecular region where bridging protiens connect to the ends of actin molecules?

a) A-band
b) I-band
c) Z-disc
c) Z-disc
Which section of a myofibril contains the Myosin molecule?

a) A-band
b) I-band
c) Z-disc
a) A-band
Which section contains only a portion of the thin actin molecules?

a) A-band
b) I-band
c) Z-disc
b) I-band
Which filament is the myosin molecule that consists of a myosin head and tail?
Thick filament
Which filament is made of actin molecules?
Thin filaments
Which filament changes its shape in response to changes in TTC?
Thick filament
What is the name of the "door" that covers the molecular binding sites of the actin molecules?
Troponin-Tropomyosin Complex
-or-
TTC
What is TTC an acronym for?
Troponin-Tropomyosin Complex
Which of the following relaxes and exposes molecular binding sites in the presence of calcium?

a) Myosin
b) Actin
c) Troponin-Tropomyosin Complex/TTC
c) TTC
What is made up of a muscle cell and a motor neuron?
Neuromuscular Junction
What is being described?

Permeable muscle cell membrane allows calcium to rush in and bind to the TTC, pulling it away from the actin receptor sites which causes the myosin heads to react and bind to the actin molecules causing a shape change that pulls the actin filaments at either end of the myosin filament closer together.
Muscle contraction
What is the energy component that is responsible for the ability of a cell membrane to allow calcium to rush in and then flush the calcium out?
ATP
(Adenosine Triphosphate)