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Skeletal Muscle
Skeletal Muscle
Types of muscle
o Skeletal muscle
Striated muscle – due to regular array of contractile elements (actin + myosin = sarcomere)
Activated via action potentials in motor nerves = neurogenic contractions
o Cardiac muscle
Striated muscle
Have intrinsic rhythm that is modulated by action potentials in autonomic nerves =
myogenic contractions
o Smooth muscle
Elongated muscle – no regular array of actin + myosin = no striations
Myogenic contractions
Excitation-contraction
o How a skeletal muscle contraction is initiated
Nerve action potential
ACh secretion by nerve ending
End-plate potential
Muscle action potential
Depolarise T-tubules (transverse) and open Ca2+ channels of SR
T-tubules = plasma membrane that protrudes into skeletal muscle cells
SR = where cells store Ca2+
Sarcoplasmic Ca2+ concentration increases
Contraction
Pump Ca2+ into SR
Relaxation
Innervation
o Skeletal muscles are supplied by myelinated nerve fibres which have their origin in the CNS = motor
nerves
Motor nerve enters muscle fibre = branches – making synaptic contact with many muscle
fibres
o Motor unit
Motor neuron + all the muscle fibres it innervates
Skeletal muscle structure
o Single skeletal muscle contains many muscle fibres
Different components of skeletal muscle –
surrounded by layers of connective tissue
Layers
o Endomysium
A delicate layer of
connective tissue that
surrounds each muscle
fibre
o Perimysium
Connective tissue that surrounds each fascicle
Fascicle = groups of muscle fibre bundles
o Epimysium
Connective tissue that surrounds entire muscle
Muscle membranes
o Myofilaments surrounded by sarcoplasmic reticulum
Arrangement of sarcoplasmic reticulum and T-tubules with myofibrils
,Skeletal Muscle
Filaments
o Thick filaments
Made up of myosin molecules = myosin head + myosin tail
Head = contact point between thick and thin filament
o Thin filament
Actin
Sits on tropomyosin backbone
o Tropomyosin activated by troponin (calcium binding protein)
Calcium binds to troponin = causes 3D shift in protein – exposing
myosin binding sites on actin
o As muscles contract – certain elements can still be identified
Molecules slide against one another
Sarcomere – one functional unit of a muscle fibre = segment between two neighbouring z-lines
o Proteins
Actin filaments = thin filaments
Major component of the I-band + extends
throughout the A-band
Myosin filaments = thick filaments
Extend throughout the A-band
Cross linked at the centre by the M-band
o Bands
Z-lines
Act as an anchoring point of the actin filaments
I-band
Zone of actin filaments that is not superimposed by myosin filaments
A-band
Contains the entire length of single thick filament
Contains both actin and myosin filaments
H-zone
Zone of myosin filaments without actin
M-line
Disc in the middle of the sarcomere – formed from cross-connecting elements of the
cytoskeleton
Contraction cycle
o Myosin heads hydrolyse ATP and become reoriented and energised
o Myosin heads bind to actin = forming crossbridges
o Myosin crossbridges rotate toward centre of sarcomere = power stroke
ADP dissociates
o As myosin heads bind ATP – crossbridges detach from actin
o Contraction cycle continues if ATP is available and Ca 2+ level in sarcoplasm is high
Contractile response
o Contractile response – initiated after the muscle action potential + lasts longer than the action
potential
o
Stimulation frequency
, Skeletal Muscle
o Twitch = individual action potentials resulting in a single contraction
Different frequencies of stimulation affects contractile force
o Summation
Series of few action potentials sent after one another
Does not allow cell to return to initial level = resulting in larger contractile force
o Unfused tetanus
Multiple action potentials sent after one another without allowing cell to return ot initial
level – resulting in larger contractile force
o Tetanus
Increased frequency of action potential – resulting in smooth contrinuous muscle
contraction
o
Contraction
o As sarcomere length decreases below 2 micrometre – the
thin filaments collide in the middle of the sarcomere =
actin myosin interaction is disturbed = contractile force
decreases
o As muscle length is decreased towards optimum length –
the amount of overlap increases = contractile force
increase
o At long sarcomere length – actin filaments do not overlap
with myosin filaments = no contraction
Length-tension relationship
o Muscles contract = generate force – measured as tension or stress + changes in length
Isotonic contractions
Concentric contraction
o Muscle activation that increases the tension on a muscle as it shortens
Eccentric contraction
o Muscle activation that increases tension on a muscle as it lengthens
Isometric contraction
Muscle contraction without any joint movement
No lengthening or contraction of muscles
Type of skeletal muscle
o Fast and slow muscles
Fast muscles – type II
Contract and relax quickly after a single action potential
Tire quickly
Slow muscles – type I
Contract and relax slowly after a single action potential
Tire slowly
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