Muscle Tissue. What is Muscle Tissue? Composed of cells that are highly specialized to shorten in...

Muscle Tissue

What is Muscle Tissue?

• Composed of cells that are highly specialized to shorten in length by contractility.• Made up of cells that are called

myocytes.• Elongated in one direction (muscle

fibres).

Special Terms

• Plasma Membrane Sarcolemma• Cytoplasm Sarcoplasm• Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum Sarcoplasmic • Mitochondria Sarcosomes

Types of Muscles

• Smooth Muscle

• Skeletal Muscle

• Cardiac Muscle

Skeletal Muscle

• Striated or voluntary muscle• Present mainly in limbs and in relation to body

wall.• Elongated, Cylindrical, multinucleated cells• Varies in length from a few mm to few cm.• Alternate dark & light bands (cross-striations).• Mostly originate from somatic mesoderm• Basic unit is long, cylindrical fiber

General Architecture

• Skeletal Muscle fibres are supported by Connective Tissue framework, well appreciated in cross section of a muscle

• EpimysiumEntire Muscle• Permysium Bundles of Muscle fibres• Endomysium- Individual muscle fibre

Skeletal Muscle

• Fibres are arranged parallel to each other.• Formed by fusion of multiple myoblasts during

embryonic life.• Myofibrils: contractile elements • Sarcomere: fundamental contractile unit• Myofilaments: contain thick (myosin) and thin

(actin) filaments

Skeletal Muscle

• Nerve supply: Motor fibres Sensory fibres

Skeletal Muscle

Cardiac Muscle

• Striated and involuntary• Present exclusively in heart• Originates in splanchnopleuric mesoderm• Supplied by ANS (sympathetic &

parasympathetic)

Microscopic structure of Cardiac Muscle

• Consists of long and thick branching muscle fibres• Intercalated discs- specialized cell junctions• These junctions are gap junctions & Desmosomes• Acts as a FUNCTIONAL SYNCYTIUM• Centrally placed single oval nucleus• Faint transverse lines• Supplied by ANS (sympathetic & parasympathetic)

Cardiac Muscle

Smooth Muscle

• Spindle elongated cells• 30 micron in length• 200-500 micron length in pregnancy• Non-striated, involuntary• Supplied by Autonomic Nervous System

Smooth Muscles

• Adjacent smooth muscle cells are in contact with each other through gap junctions which help to transmit the electric impulses from one cell to another.

• Spindle shaped cells• Centrally placed oval nucleus

Smooth Muscle

Connective tissue frame work

Muscle Tissue

Muscle

• Mesodermal in origin• Composed predominantly of

Specialized cells which shorten in length by contraction and this is how they bring about Movement

Muscle

• Muscle fibres are elongated cells which contain contractile proteins, mainly Actin and Myosin.

• Interaction between these proteins bring about contraction.

Other Contractile Cells

•Myoepithelial cells

•Myofibroblasts

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