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Smooth Muscle

Smooth Muscle. Characteristics Not striated Dense bodies instead of Z disks as in skeletal muscle Have noncontractile intermediate filaments Ca 2+ required to initiate contractions Types Visceral or unitary Function as a unit Multiunit Cells or groups of cells act as independent units.

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Smooth Muscle

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  1. Smooth Muscle • Characteristics • Not striated • Dense bodies instead of Z disks as in skeletal muscle • Have noncontractile intermediate filaments • Ca2+ required to initiate contractions • Types • Visceral or unitary • Function as a unit • Multiunit • Cells or groups of cells act as independent units

  2. Smooth Muscle Contraction

  3. Electrical Properties of Smooth Muscle

  4. Functional Properties of Smooth Muscle • Some visceral muscle exhibits autorhythmic contractions • Tends to contract in response to sudden stretch but no to slow increase in length • Exhibits relatively constant tension: Smooth muscle tone • Amplitude of contraction remains constant although muscle length varies

  5. Smooth Muscle Regulation • Innervated by autonomic nervous system • Neurotransmitter are acetylcholine and norepinephrine • Hormones important as epinephrine and oxytocin • Receptors present on plasma membrane which neurotransmitters or hormones bind determines response

  6. Cardiac Muscle • Found only in heart • Striated • Each cell usually has one nucleus • Has intercalated disks and gap junctions • Autorhythmic cells • Action potentials of longer duration and longer refractory period • Ca2+ regulates contraction

  7. Cardiac Muscle • Elongated, branching cells containing 1-2 centrally located nuclei • Contains actin and myosin myofilaments • Intercalated disks: Specialized cell-cell contacts • Desmosomes hold cells together and gap junctions allow action potentials • Electrically, cardiac muscle behaves as single unit

  8. Cardiac myocyte action potential:

  9. Refractory Period • Absolute: Cardiac muscle cell completely insensitive to further stimulation • Relative: Cell exhibits reduced sensitivity to additional stimulation • Long refractory period prevents tetanic contractions

  10. AP-contraction relationship: • AP in skeletal muscle is very short-lived • AP is basically over before an increase in muscle tension can be measured. • AP in cardiac muscle is very long-lived • AP has an extra component, which extends the duration. • The contraction is almost over before the action potential has finished.

  11. Functions of the Heart • Generating blood pressure • Routing blood • Heart separates pulmonary and systemic circulations • Ensuring one-way blood flow • Heart valves ensure one-way flow • Regulating blood supply • Changes in contraction rate and force match blood delivery to changing metabolic needs

  12. Orientation of cardiac muscle fibres: • Unlike skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles have to contract in more than one direction. • Cardiac muscle cells are striated, meaning they will only contract along their long axis. • In order to get contraction in two axis, the fibres wrap around.

  13. Circulation circuits:

  14. Heart Wall • Three layers of tissue • Epicardium: This serous membrane of smooth outer surface of heart • Myocardium: Middle layer composed of cardiac muscle cell and responsibility for heart contracting • Endocardium: Smooth inner surface of heart chambers

  15. Valve function:

  16. Coronary circulation:

  17. Pacemaker potential:

  18. Cardiac conducting system:

  19. EKG:

  20. Heart Sounds • First heart sound or “lubb” • Atrioventricular valves and surrounding fluid vibrations as valves close at beginning of ventricular systole • Second heart sound or “dupp” • Results from closure of aortic and pulmonary semilunar valves at beginning of ventricular diastole, lasts longer • Third heart sound (occasional) • Caused by turbulent blood flow into ventricles and detected near end of first one-third of diastole

  21. Heart sounds:

  22. Cardiac Arrhythmias • Tachycardia: Heart rate in excess of 100bpm • Bradycardia: Heart rate less than 60 bpm • Sinus arrhythmia: Heart rate varies 5% during respiratory cycle and up to 30% during deep respiration • Premature atrial contractions: Occasional shortened intervals between one contraction and succeeding, frequently occurs in healthy people

  23. Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) • Average blood pressure in aorta • MAP=CO x PR • CO is amount of blood pumped by heart per minute • CO=SV x HR • SV: Stroke volume of blood pumped during each heart beat • HR: Heart rate or number of times heart beats per minute • Cardiac reserve: Difference between CO at rest and maximum CO • PR is total resistance against which blood must be pumped

  24. Pressure relationships:

  25. Cardiac Cycle • Heart is two pumps that work together, right and left half • Repetitive contraction (systole) and relaxation (diastole) of heart chambers • Blood moves through circulatory system from areas of higher to lower pressure. • Contraction of heart produces the pressure

  26. Factors Affecting MAP

  27. Regulation of the Heart • Intrinsic regulation: Results from normal functional characteristics, not on neural or hormonal regulation • Starling’s law of the heart • Extrinsic regulation: Involves neural and hormonal control • Parasympathetic stimulation • Supplied by vagus nerve, decreases heart rate, acetylcholine secreted • Sympathetic stimulation • Supplied by cardiac nerves, increases heart rate and force of contraction, epinephrine and norepinephrine released

  28. Heart Homeostasis • Effect of blood pressure • Baroreceptors monitor blood pressure • Effect of pH, carbon dioxide, oxygen • Chemoreceptors monitor • Effect of extracellular ion concentration • Increase or decrease in extracellular K+ decreases heart rate • Effect of body temperature • Heart rate increases when body temperature increases, heart rate decreases when body temperature decreases

  29. Baroreceptor and ChemoreceptorReflexes

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