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11-1
Chapter 11
Lecture Outline
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Muscle Tissue
• Types and characteristics of muscular tissue• Microscopic anatomy of skeletal muscle• Nerve-Muscle relationship• Behavior of skeletal muscle fibers• Behavior of whole muscles• Muscle metabolism• Cardiac and smooth muscle
11-3
Introduction to Muscle
• Movement is a fundamental characteristic of all living things
• Cells capable of shortening and converting the chemical energy of ATP into mechanical energy
• Types of muscle– skeletal, cardiac and smooth
• Physiology of skeletal muscle– basis of warm-up, strength, endurance and
fatigue
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Characteristics of Muscle
• Responsiveness (excitability)– to chemical signals, stretch and electrical
changes across the plasma membrane
• Conductivity– local electrical change triggers a wave of
excitation that travels along the muscle fiber
• Contractility -- shortens when stimulated
• Extensibility -- capable of being stretched
• Elasticity -- returns to its original resting length after being stretched
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Skeletal Muscle
• Voluntary striated muscle attached to bones
• Muscle fibers (myofibers) as long as 30 cm
• Exhibits alternating light and dark transverse bands or striations– reflects overlapping arrangement of
internal contractile proteins
• Under conscious control (voluntary)
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Connective Tissue Elements• Attachments between muscle and bone
– endomysium, perimysium, epimysium, fascia, tendon
• Collagen is extensible and elastic– stretches slightly under tension and recoils
when released• protects muscle from injury• returns muscle to its resting length
• Elastic components– parallel components parallel muscle cells– series components joined to ends of muscle
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The Muscle Fiber
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Muscle Fibers
• Multiple flattened nuclei inside cell membrane– fusion of multiple myoblasts during
development– unfused satellite cells nearby can multiply to
produce a small number of new myofibers
• Sarcolemma has tunnel-like infoldings or transverse (T) tubules that penetrate the cell– carry electric current to cell interior
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Muscle Fibers 2
• Sarcoplasm is filled with – myofibrils (bundles of myofilaments)– glycogen for stored energy and myoglobin
for binding oxygen
• Sarcoplasmic reticulum = smooth ER– network around each myofibril– dilated end-sacs (terminal cisternea) store
calcium– triad = T tubule and 2 terminal cisternea
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Thick Filaments
• Made of 200 to 500 myosin molecules– 2 entwined polypeptides (golf clubs)
• Arranged in a bundle with heads directed outward in a spiral array around the bundled tails– central area is a bare zone with no heads
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Thin Filaments• Two intertwined strands fibrous (F) actin
– globular (G) actin with an active site
• Groove holds tropomyosin molecules– each blocking 6 or 7 active sites of G actins
• One small, calcium-binding troponin molecule on each tropomyosin molecule
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Elastic Filaments
• Springy proteins called titin
• Anchor each thick filament to Z disc
• Prevents overstretching of sarcomere
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Regulatory and Contractile Proteins
• Myosin and actin are contractile proteins• Tropomyosin and troponin = regulatory proteins
– switch that starts and stops shortening of muscle cell– contraction activated by release of calcium into sarcoplasm
and its binding to troponin, – troponin moves tropomyosin off the actin active sites
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Overlap of Thick and Thin Filaments
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Striations = Organization of Filaments• Dark A bands (regions) alternating with lighter I bands (regions)
– anisotrophic (A) and isotropic (I) stand for the way these regions affect polarized light
• A band is thick filament region– lighter, central H band area
contains no thin filaments• I band is thin filament region
– bisected by Z disc protein called connectin, anchoring elastic and thin filaments
– from one Z disc (Z line) to the next is a sarcomere
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Striations and Sarcomeres
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Relaxed and Contracted Sarcomeres
• Muscle cells shorten because their individual sarcomeres shorten – pulling Z discs closer together– pulls on sarcolemma
• Notice neither thick nor thin filaments change length during shortening
• Their overlap changes as sarcomeres shorten
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Nerve-Muscle Relationships
• Skeletal muscle must be stimulated by a nerve or it will not contract
• Cell bodies of somatic motor neurons in brainstem or spinal cord
• Axons of somatic motor neurons = somatic motor fibers– terminal branches supply one muscle fiber
• Each motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates = motor unit
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Motor Units• A motor neuron and the muscle
fibers it innervates– dispersed throughout the muscle– when contract together causes weak
contraction over wide area– provides ability to sustain long-term
contraction as motor units take turns resting (postural control)
• Fine control– small motor units contain as few as
20 muscle fibers per nerve fiber– eye muscles
• Strength control– gastrocnemius muscle has 1000
fibers per nerve fiber
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Neuromuscular Junctions (Synapse)
• Functional connection between nerve fiber and muscle cell
• Neurotransmitter (acetylcholine/ACh) released from nerve fiber stimulates muscle cell
• Components of synapse (NMJ)– synaptic knob is swollen end of nerve fiber (contains
ACh)– junctional folds region of sarcolemma
• increases surface area for ACh receptors• contains acetylcholinesterase that breaks down ACh and
causes relaxation– synaptic cleft = tiny gap between nerve and muscle
cells– Basal lamina = thin layer of collagen and glycoprotein
over all of muscle fiber
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The Neuromuscular Junction
11-22
Neuromuscular Toxins
• Pesticides (cholinesterase inhibitors) – bind to acetylcholinesterase and prevent it
from degrading ACh– spastic paralysis and possible suffocation
• Tetanus or lockjaw is spastic paralysis caused by toxin of Clostridium bacteria– blocks glycine release in the spinal cord and
causes overstimulation of the muscles
• Flaccid paralysis (limp muscles) due to curare that competes with ACh– respiratory arrest
11-23
Electrically Excitable Cells
• Plasma membrane is polarized or charged – resting membrane potential due to Na+ outside
of cell and K+ and other anions inside of cell– difference in charge across the membrane =
resting membrane potential (-90 mV cell)
• Stimulation opens ion gates in membrane– ion gates open (Na+ rushes into cell and K+
rushes out of cell)• quick up-and-down voltage shift = action potential
– spreads over cell surface as nerve signal
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Muscle Contraction and Relaxation
• Four actions involved in this process– excitation = nerve action potentials lead to
action potentials in muscle fiber– excitation-contraction coupling = action
potentials on the sarcolemma activate myofilaments
– contraction = shortening of muscle fiber – relaxation = return to resting length
• Images will be used to demonstrate the steps of each of these actions
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Excitation of a Muscle Fiber
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Excitation (steps 1 and 2)
• Nerve signal opens voltage-gated calcium channels. Calcium stimulates exocytosis of synaptic vesicles containing ACh = ACh release into synaptic cleft.
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Excitation (steps 3 and 4)
Binding of ACh to receptor proteins opens Na+ and K+ channels resulting in jump in RMP from -90mV to +75mV forming an end-plate potential (EPP).
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Excitation (step 5)
Voltage change in end-plate region (EPP) opens nearby voltage-gated channels producing an action potential
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Excitation-Contraction Coupling
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Excitation-Contraction Coupling (steps 6 and 7)
Action potential spreading over sarcolemma enters T tubules -- voltage-gated channels open in T tubules causing calcium gates to open in SR
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Excitation-Contraction Coupling (steps 8 and 9)
• Calcium released by SR binds to troponin• Troponin-tropomyosin complex changes shape
and exposes active sites on actin
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Contraction (steps 10 and 11)
• Myosin ATPase in myosin head hydrolyzes an ATP molecule, activating the head and “cocking” it in an extended position
• It binds to actin active site forming a cross-bridge
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Contraction (steps 12 and 13)• Power stroke =
myosin head releasesADP and phosphate as it flexes pulling the thin filament past the thick
• With the binding of more ATP, the myosin head extends to attach to a new active site– half of the heads are bound to a thin
filament at one time preventing slippage– thin and thick filaments do not become
shorter, just slide past each other (sliding filament theory)
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Relaxation (steps 14 and 15)
Nerve stimulation ceases and acetylcholinesterase removes ACh from receptors. Stimulation of the muscle cell ceases.
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Relaxation (step 16)
• Active transport needed to pump calcium back into SR to bind to calsequestrin
• ATP is needed for muscle relaxation as well as muscle contraction
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Relaxation (steps 17 and 18)
• Loss of calcium from sarcoplasm moves troponin-tropomyosin complex over active sites– stops the production or maintenance of tension
• Muscle fiber returns to its resting length due to recoil of series-elastic components and contraction of antagonistic muscles
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Rigor Mortis
• Stiffening of the body beginning 3 to 4 hours after death
• Deteriorating sarcoplasmic reticulum releases calcium
• Calcium activates myosin-actin cross-bridging and muscle contracts, but can not relax.
• Muscle relaxation requires ATP and ATP production is no longer produced after death
• Fibers remain contracted until myofilaments decay
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Length-Tension Relationship
• Amount of tension generated depends on length of muscle before it was stimulated– length-tension relationship (see graph next slide)
• Overly contracted (weak contraction results)– thick filaments too close to Z discs and can’t slide
• Too stretched (weak contraction results)– little overlap of thin and thick does not allow for very
many cross bridges too form
• Optimum resting length produces greatest force when muscle contracts– central nervous system maintains optimal length
producing muscle tone or partial contraction
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Length-Tension Curve
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Muscle Twitch in Frog
• Threshold = voltage producing an action potential– a single brief stimulus at that
voltage produces a quick cycle of contraction and relaxation called a twitch (lasting less than 1/10 second)
• A single twitch contraction is not strong enough to do any useful work
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Muscle Twitch in Frog 2
• Phases of a twitch contraction– latent period (2 msec delay)
• only internal tension is generated• no visible contraction occurs since
only elastic components are being stretched
– contraction phase• external tension develops as muscle
shortens
– relaxation phase • loss of tension and return
to resting length as calcium returns to SR
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Contraction Strength of Twitches
• Threshold stimuli produces twitches• Twitches unchanged despite increased
voltage• “Muscle fiber obeys an all-or-none law”
contracting to its maximum or not at all– not a true statement since twitches vary in
strength• depending upon, Ca2+ concentration, previous stretch
of the muscle, temperature, pH and hydration
• Closer stimuli produce stronger twitches
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Recruitment and Stimulus Intensity
• Stimulating the whole nerve with higher and higher voltage produces stronger contractions
• More motor units are being recruited– called multiple motor unit summation– lift a glass of milk versus a whole gallon of milk
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Twitch and Treppe Contractions
• Muscle stimulation at variable frequencies– low frequency (up to 10 stimuli/sec)
• each stimulus produces an identical twitch response
– moderate frequency (between 10-20 stimuli/sec)• each twitch has time to recover but develops more
tension than the one before (treppe phenomenon)– calcium was not completely put back into SR
– heat of tissue increases myosin ATPase efficiency
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Incomplete and Complete Tetanus
• Higher frequency stimulation (20-40 stimuli/second) generates gradually more strength of contraction– each stimuli arrives before last one recovers
• temporal summation or wave summation
– incomplete tetanus = sustained fluttering contractions
• Maximum frequency stimulation (40-50 stimuli/second)– muscle has no time to relax at all– twitches fuse into smooth, prolonged contraction called
complete tetanus– rarely occurs in the body
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Isometric and Isotonic Contractions
• Isometric muscle contraction– develops tension without changing length– important in postural muscle function and
antagonistic muscle joint stabilization• Isotonic muscle contraction
– tension while shortening = concentric– tension while lengthening = eccentric
11-47
Muscle Contraction Phases
• Isometric and isotonic phases of lifting – tension builds though the box is not moving– muscle begins to shorten– tension maintained
11-48
ATP Sources
• All muscle contraction depends on ATP• Pathways of ATP synthesis
– anaerobic fermentation (ATP production limited)• without oxygen, produces toxic lactic acid
– aerobic respiration (more ATP produced)• requires continuous oxygen supply, produces H2O and
CO2
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Immediate Energy Needs
• Short, intense exercise (100 m dash)– oxygen need is supplied by
myoglobin
• Phosphagen system– myokinase transfers Pi groups
from one ADP to another forming ATP
– creatine kinase transfers Pi groups from creatine phosphate to make ATP
• Result is power enough for 1 minute brisk walk or 6 seconds of sprinting
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Short-Term Energy Needs
• Glycogen-lactic acid system takes over– produces ATP for 30-40 seconds of
maximum activity• playing basketball or running around baseball
diamonds
– muscles obtain glucose from blood and stored glycogen
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Long-Term Energy Needs
• Aerobic respiration needed for prolonged exercise– Produces 36 ATPs/glucose molecule
• After 40 seconds of exercise, respiratory and cardiovascular systems must deliver enough oxygen for aerobic respiration– oxygen consumption rate increases for first 3-4
minutes and then levels off to a steady state
• Limits are set by depletion of glycogen and blood glucose, loss of fluid and electrolytes
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Fatigue
• Progressive weakness from use– ATP synthesis declines as glycogen is
consumed– sodium-potassium pumps fail to maintain
membrane potential and excitability– lactic acid inhibits enzyme function– accumulation of extracellular K+
hyperpolarizes the cell– motor nerve fibers use up their acetylcholine
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Endurance
• Ability to maintain high-intensity exercise for >5 minutes– determined by maximum oxygen uptake
• VO2 max is proportional to body size, peaks at age 20, is larger in trained athlete and males
– nutrient availability• carbohydrate loading used by some athletes
– packs glycogen into muscle cells– adds water at same time (2.7 g water with each
gram/glycogen)» side effects include “heaviness” feeling
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Oxygen Debt• Heavy breathing after strenuous exercise
– known as excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC)
– typically about 11 liters extra is consumed
• Purposes for extra oxygen– replace oxygen reserves (myoglobin, blood
hemoglobin, in air in the lungs and dissolved in plasma)
– replenishing the phosphagen system– reconverting lactic acid to glucose in kidneys and
liver– serving the elevated metabolic rate that occurs as
long as the body temperature remains elevated by exercise
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Slow- and Fast-Twitch Fibers
• Slow oxidative, slow-twitch fibers– more mitochondria, myoglobin and
capillaries– adapted for aerobic respiration and
resistant to fatigue– soleus and postural muscles of the
back (100msec/twitch)
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Slow and Fast-Twitch Fibers
• Fast glycolytic, fast-twitch fibers– rich in enzymes for phosphagen and
glycogen-lactic acid systems– sarcoplasmic reticulum releases calcium
quickly so contractions are quicker (7.5 msec/twitch)
– extraocular eye muscles, gastrocnemius and biceps brachii
• Proportions genetically determined
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Strength and Conditioning
• Strength of contraction– muscle size and fascicle arrangement
• 3 or 4 kg / cm2 of cross-sectional area
– size of motor units and motor unit recruitment– length of muscle at start of contraction
• Resistance training (weight lifting)– stimulates cell enlargement due to synthesis of
more myofilaments
• Endurance training (aerobic exercise)– produces an increase in mitochondria, glycogen and
density of capillaries
11-58
Cardiac Muscle 1
• Thick cells shaped like a log with uneven, notched ends
• Linked to each other at intercalated discs– electrical gap junctions allow cells to stimulate their
neighbors– mechanical junctions keep the cells from pulling
apart
• Sarcoplasmic reticulum less developed but large T tubules admit Ca+2 from extracellular fluid
• Damaged cells repaired by fibrosis, not mitosis
11-59
Cardiac Muscle 2
• Autorhythmic due to pacemaker cells
• Uses aerobic respiration almost exclusively– large mitochondria make it resistant to
fatigue– very vulnerable to interruptions in oxygen
supply
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Smooth Muscle• Fusiform cells with one nucleus
– 30 to 200 microns long and 5 to 10 microns wide
– no striations, sarcomeres or Z discs– thin filaments attach to dense bodies
scattered throughout sarcoplasm and on sarcolemma
– SR is scanty and has no T tubules• calcium for contraction comes from extracellular
fluid
• If present, nerve supply is autonomic– releases either ACh or norepinephrine
11-61
Types of Smooth Muscle
• Multiunit smooth muscle– largest arteries, iris, pulmonary air
passages, arrector pili muscles– terminal nerve branches synapse on
myocytes– independent contraction
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Types of Smooth Muscle
• Single-unit smooth muscle– most blood vessels and viscera as circular
and longitudinal muscle layers– electrically coupled by gap junctions– large number of cells contract as a unit
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Stimulation of Smooth Muscle
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Stimulation of Smooth Muscle
• Involuntary and contracts without nerve stimulation– hormones, CO2, low pH, stretch, O2 deficiency– pacemaker cells in GI tract are autorhythmic
• Autonomic nerve fibers have beadlike swellings called varicosities containing synaptic vesicles– stimulates multiple myocytes at diffuse
junctions
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Features of Contraction and Relaxation
• Calcium triggering contraction is extracellular– calcium channels triggered to open by voltage,
hormones, neurotransmitters or cell stretching• calcium ions bind to calmodulin• activates light-chain myokinase which activates myosin
ATPase • power stroke occurs when ATP hydrolyzed
• Thin filaments pull on intermediate filaments attached to dense bodies on the plasma membrane– shortens the entire cell in a twisting fashion
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• Contraction and relaxation very slow in comparison– slow myosin ATPase enzyme and slow
pumps that remove Ca+2
• Uses 10-300 times less ATP to maintain the same tension– latch-bridge mechanism maintains tetanus
(muscle tone)• keeps arteries in state of partial contraction
(vasomotor tone)
Features of Contraction and Relaxation
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Contraction of Smooth Muscle
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Responses to Stretch 1
• Stretch opens mechanically-gated calcium channels causing muscle response– food entering the esophagus brings on
peristalsis
• Stress-relaxation response necessary for hollow organs that gradually fill (urinary bladder)– when stretched, tissue briefly contracts then
relaxes
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• Must contract forcefully when greatly stretched– thick filaments have heads along their
entire length– no orderly filament arrangement -- no Z
discs
• Plasticity is ability to adjust tension to degree of stretch such as empty bladder is not flabby
Responses to Stretch 2
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Muscular Dystrophy• Hereditary diseases - skeletal muscles
degenerate and are replaced with adipose
• Disease of males– appears as child begins to walk– rarely live past 20 years of age
• Dystrophin links actin filaments to cell membrane– leads to torn cell membranes and necrosis
• Fascioscapulohumeral MD -- facial and shoulder muscle only
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Myasthenia Gravis• Autoimmune disease - antibodies attack
NMJ and bind ACh receptors in clusters– receptors removed– less and less sensitive to ACh
• drooping eyelids and double vision, difficulty swallowing, weakness of the limbs, respiratory failure
• Disease of women between 20 and 40
• Treated with cholinesterase inhibitors, thymus removal or immunosuppressive agents
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Myasthenia Gravis
Drooping eyelids and weakness of muscles of eye movement