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Unit 4 – Muscle Physiology | Human Physiology (Silverthorn 8th Edition)

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This comprehensive unit covers muscle tissue structure, contraction mechanisms, and motor control from Chapters 12–13 of Silverthorn’s Human Physiology. These notes explain how skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles generate force and respond to neural and hormonal regulation. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate physiology students, these pages are clearly organized with labeled diagrams, contraction cycles, excitation–contraction coupling steps, and fiber-type comparisons. Excellent for MCAT, physiology exams, or teaching review sessions.

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Unit 4-muscle
myology study of muscle tissue
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muscle is 40-60% of body weight

convert chem energy (ATP) to mech
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energy
types of muscle
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Skeletal - stricted ; suncutial fibers (multinucleated cells)
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> striated individual cells
cardiac - ; joined by intercalated disks (gapjxns)
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smooth- unstricted
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ofXn :




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movement Skeletal mus contract to produce
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movement/tension between bones
movement of tissue not anchored to bone (position of eyeball facial expressions)
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reg containment vessels- smooth musc in blood vessels GI tract
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bladder


reg inflow/outflow-sphincter-like muscles reg resistance
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thermogenesis - heat
production (generate 85% of body heat;
shiveringinvol contractions
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stabilizing joints > provide strengths support to joints
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characteristics

excitability conductivity >
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reg /triggered by NTs hormones
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contractility -
> musc
generates force to do work
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extensibility -
> musc Stretch who damage to the tissue
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elasticity -
> musc returns to original shape after stretching/contracting
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Skeletal muscle
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muscle fibers - individual cells from which muscles develop form a
single fiber that is a suncitium (fxn unit)
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intercellular plasma mem .
disappear
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multiple nuclei
fiber represents contractile element
single one
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Connective tissue
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fibers bundled in
asicles surrounded by sheath

continuous with conn Tissue surrounds muscle
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holds muscle to bone with tendon
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Blood vessels -
> abundant


: remove Waste ; maintain ionic homeostasis
supply nutrients
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Satellite cells (stem cells) - differenciate for growth or repair
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Nerves

*motor unit : a motor neurons muscle fiber it stimulates

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motor neurons

Acetylcholine NT released
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axons branch into smaller axon terminals to extend onto surface of musc.
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synaptic end bulbs : at end of axon terminals

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motor end plate
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directly across synaptic cleft from synaptic end bulbs
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contain Ach receptors that open monovalent cation channels (favors Nat in out but electrochem +
, gradient favors
Nat early (depolarization) whileh+ moves later /repolarization)

, Building a skeletal muscle
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myosin
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one mol .
comprised of two identical subunits
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ztails intertwined
ATPases Actin
Globular heads have two critical sites -
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binding
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mol Self-assemble tail to tail into thick filaments
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actin
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one mol . or monomer -
> G-actin
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multiple form double helical structure >
- F-actin

tropomysin e thread-like protein lines edge of actin spiral ; can block myosin-actin inter
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Troponin (Th) complex
Troponin T binds to tropomyosin
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Troponin I : binds to actin; helps maintain inter .




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Troponin C :
binds Calcium

Biochemistry myosin: actin -



1.
Resting Actin : myosin
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ADP/P ; are close
together; "cocked" conform.

. Cabinds to troponin Ce conf out of inhibition
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change moves tropomyosin
, position
. Myosin binds to actin
3 >
- Pi released myosin head moves 2 actin monomers (power-stroke wilnm)
. New ATP binds to myosin -
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myosin dissociates actin
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5 ATP is hydrolyzed - myosin Pi/ADP
> returns to resting "cocked" position
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rigor :
no ATP present to allow for dissociation , muscles are stiff
structure
Sarcomere fxn composed of myosin , /Conn Tissue elastic proteins, tendons
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>
- musc .
unit actin , connec .
elastic mol . .
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z-line , A-band I-band ,




oT-tubules- run thru fiber perpendicular to mem at As I bands .




contiguous with plasma mem.
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conducts AP

Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) - stores releases Ca
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"and band

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modified ER mesh surrounds each myofibril
not for each As I bands
contiguous (separate one
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Excitation Contraction
coupling
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Acetylcholine is released from somatic motor neuron

at motor end plate
binds to
cholinergic receptors
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open cation channels (Natin/K
+
out ; but electro favors . Nat)
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muscle Ap carried by Sarcolemmas down T-tubules

voltage-gated DHP receptor on T-tubule
triggers opening of Ryanodine receptors (RyR) on sarcoplasmic ret to release stored Cat
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Rapid increase in sarcoplasm Cat combines with troponin to initiate contraction
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Cat in sarcoplasm reduced
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primarily via reuptake by sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticular Ca ATPase (SERCA)
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