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The Nervous and Muscular Systems…and the role of ATP
Overview of the Nervous System
General parts:
• The brain
• The spinal cord
• The nerves and sense organs
General functions:
• controls and coordinates body’s activities
• helps us sense and respond to changes in the environment
Functions Sensory Input: • Sensation of hot and cold via sensory nerves to the
brain • Response to external stimuli
Integration: • Data interpretation by the brain and spinal cord
• Sums up data and sends out impulses
Motor Output: • Signals (nerve impulses) from the brain and spinal cord
to the effectors (muscles, glands, organs) • Responses include muscle contractions, gland secretions, and
changes in organ function
Divisions of the Nervous System
The Central Nervous System (CNS):
• The brain and spinal cord
The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS):
• Consists of cranial and spinal nerves
Structure of a Neuron Cell body – contains the
nucleus and other organelles
Dendrites – receive signals from sensory receptors or other neurons
Axon – conducts nerve signals
– group together in a bundle and form a nerve
– axon bundle is called a tract in the CNS
Sensory Neuron
Where found: Outside of the brain and spinal cord (PNS)
Function:
bring sensory info from skin, muscles and organs to the spinal cord (CNS)
Sensory receptors
Sensory receptor
Long dendrites (called an
axon)
Cell Body
Short Axon leading to
spinal cord
Interneurons (Association Neurons)
Found: CNS only
Function:
Convey impulses between
various parts of the CNS
• Integrate messages
• Are involved in thinking, memory, and language processing
• Link other neurons
Sensory Neuron
Short dendrites (of
interneuron)
Cell Body
Short Axon leading
motor neuron
Motor Neurons (efferent) • Found: CNS and PNS
• Function:
– Carry nerves impulses from the CNS to the
muscles , glands and organs (effectors)
CNS
Short dendrites
Cell Body
Long Axon to effector
Neuromuscular junction – where the neuron meets a muscle
Steps of a nerve impulse from a neuron to a muscle
• Nerve impulse travels down axon.
• Calcium is released.
• Neurotransmitters stored in synaptic vesicles in the axon terminal.
• Neurotransmitters are released into synaptic cleft .
• Neurotransmitter binds to receptors on muscle cell.
• Impulse travels through muscle cell…
Types of Muscles
Skeletal Cardiac Smooth
Smooth Muscle
• Found in hollow parts of the body (stomach, intestines, blood vessels, bladder)
• Many mitochondria (needs lots of energy)
• Involuntary
• Does not fatigue easily
Cardiac Muscles
• Found in Heart
• Many mitochondria
• Involuntary rhythmic contractions
• Never rests
Skeletal Muscle
• Some more mitochondria than others
• Voluntary
• Attached to bone via tendons
• Over 600 in your body
Plasma membrane = sarcolemma
Cytoplasm = sarcoplasm
Mitochondria= where CR occurs
Endoplasmic Reticulum = sarcoplasmic reticulum
A skeletal muscle cell
Organization: Microscopic to macroscopic
• Myofibril – actin and myosin unit
• Muscle fiber – muscle cells with organelles
• Fascicle = bundle of muscle fibers
• Muscle = organ ( includes all above parts)
Sarcomere
• Protein filaments
– Thin filaments-Actin, Troponin, Tropomyosin
– Thick filaments-Myosin
• Contraction of a muscle occurs as the actin filaments move over the myosin filaments
How muscle contracts • ATP and Calcium are necessary
• Calcium binds to troponin, tropomyosin moves to reveal myosin head binding sites.
• Myosin heads bind to actin and pull inward • https://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter10/animation__breakdown_of_atp_and_cross-bridge_movement_during_muscle_contraction.html
Role of ATP in muscle contraction
Contraction = movement of actin over myosin
M line
Thick myosin without overlap of actin = H zone Middle of I band (actin protein attached) = Z line
Steps of Muscle Contraction
1. Impulse travels across sarcolemma and down t-tubules
2. SR releases calcium
3. Calcium binds to troponin proteins on actin
4. Tropomyosin proteins on actin move to reveal myosin head binding sites
5. Myosin heads bind to actin and pulls inward
6. Myosin heads detach from actin (requiring ATP)
Slow vs. Fast Slow twitch fibers: aerobic
• More endurance, high resistance to fatigue
• Helpful in long-distance running, biking, jogging, swimming
• Dark: many mitochondria
Fast twitch fibers: anaerobic
• Strength, quick fatigue
• Weight lifting, sprinting
• Light: few mitochondria