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Unit 4

Unit 4. The Muscular System. Muscle Cells. There are 3 types of muscle cells Cardiac, Smooth, and Skeletal All muscles can contract (shorten) When muscles contract, part of the body moves. Cardiac Muscles. Striated, tubular, and branched Have one nucleus per cell Contract involuntarily

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Unit 4

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  1. Unit 4 The Muscular System

  2. Muscle Cells • There are 3 types of muscle cells • Cardiac, Smooth, and Skeletal • All muscles can contract (shorten) • When muscles contract, part of the body moves

  3. Cardiac Muscles • Striated, tubular, and branched • Have one nucleus per cell • Contract involuntarily • Found in the walls of the heart

  4. Smooth Muscles • Non-striated, arranged in sheets • Have one nucleus per cell • Contract involuntarily, and can sustain prolonged contractions

  5. Smooth Muscles • Found in the walls of internal organs (cavities and tubes) such as: • Blood vessels, iris of the eye,internal organs such as the stomach, intestines, uterus, and esophagus for peristalsis

  6. Skeletal Muscles • Striated and tubular • Have many nuclei per cell • Attached to the bones of the skeleton

  7. Skeletal Muscles • Contract voluntarily, controlled consciously by the nervous system • Due to structure and having many nuclei they are referred to as fibres

  8. Compare the muscle types!

  9. Muscle Contraction • Muscles contract  they shorten! • Muscles can only pull they cannot push • Muscles that permit movement are found in pairs, as each muscle in the relaxed state needs an opposite muscle to stretch it. • Antagonistic muscles- pairs of muscles that work against each other to make a joint move

  10. Muscle contraction – bundle of fibres • Skeletal muscles consist of many bundled muscle fibres held together with connective tissue • Muscle fibre consists of: • Myofilaments a thread of contractile proteins found within muscle fibres

  11. Muscle Contraction - bundles of fibres

  12. Two types of Myofilaments • Thick filament – fine myofilament composed of bundles of protein called myosin. Each myosin molecule consists of two polypeptide chains wrapped around each other. Binds to actin

  13. Two types of Myofilaments • Thin filament – fine myofilament composed of strands of protein called actin. Consist of globular actin proteins. Binds to myosin

  14. Myofilament Contraction • Four steps: • 1. The myosin head is attached to actin

  15. Myofilament Contraction • 2. The myosin head flexes, advancing the actin filament

  16. Myofilament Contraction • 3. The myosin head releases and unflexes, powered by ATP.

  17. Myofilament Contraction • 4. The myosin reattaches to actin farther along the fibre

  18. Sliding Filament Model • Actin is anchored in the striated muscle tissue called the Z-Line • Since it is ‘anchored’ like this, when actin moves it drags the Z-line with it, toward the myosin • This causes the entire muscle to contract

  19. Sliding Filament Model • The heads of the two ends of the myosin filament are orientated in opposite directions. When the heads attach to the actin, they bend toward the centre of the myosin.

  20. Sliding Filament Model • As one end of the myosin filament draws the actin filament and its attached Z line toward the centre, the other end of the myosin filament does the same

  21. Sliding Filament Model • Both Z lines move toward the centre, and contraction occurs

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