Essay about The Human Body: The Muscular System

The human body contains three kinds of muscle tissue: cardiac muscle, smooth muscle and skeletal muscle; each performs specific tasks to maintain homeostasis – the tendency to maintain a stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, mainly that which is maintained by physiological processes. The primary function of muscle, regardless of kind, is to convert chemical energy to mechanical work, which in turn allows the muscle to shorten or contracts. The muscle tissues observed in this experiment is the skeletal muscle which are usually attached to the skeleton. As a result, contraction of the skeletal muscle moves one part of the body with respect to another.

This activity is the critical driving force of muscle contraction. The stream of action potentials along the muscle fiber surface is terminated as Acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction is broken down by acetyl cholinesterase. The release of Calcium ions is ceased. The action of the myosin molecule heads is obstructed because of the change in the configuration of troponin and tropomyosin due to the absence of calcium ions. This will eventually cause the contraction to be ceased. Together with these physical processes, an external stretching force such as gravity pulls the muscle back to its normal length.

types of muscle tissues : skeletal, cardiac, smooth. Each of these different tissues has the ability

Smooth muscle contraction occurs when calcium is present in the smooth muscle cell and binds onto calmodulin to activate myosin light chain kinase (Wilson et al., 2002). Phosphorylation of myosin light chains result in myosin ATPase activity thus cross-bridge cycling occurs causing the muscle to contract (Horowitz et al., 1996). There are two known models of excitation and contraction in smooth muscle, electromechanical coupling (EMC) and pharmomechanical coupling

These muscle tissue cells specialised to contract and move parts of the body. It is also capable of responding to stimuli. There are three types of muscle in the body such as: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. Each muscle is created of muscle fibers that are capable of contracting and returning back to original state-relaxation. Contraction causes movement of the skeleton, soft tissue, blood or specific material. Skeletal muscle is attached to the bones of the skeleton. Some facial muscles are attached to the skin. They have direct control over them through nervous impulses from our brain sending messages to the muscle. Contractions can vary to produce fast, powerful movements. These muscles also have the ability to stretch and contract to return to original shape. Cardiac muscles are found in the chambers of the heart such as the atria and ventricles. It is under the control of the automatic nervous system; however, even without nervous input contractions can occur. It is completely different to all the other muscles. Smooth muscles are also known as involuntary due to our inability to control its movement. This muscle is usually found in the walls of hollow organs

Abstract: In this experiment the measurements of skeletal muscle fibers of the rabbit are in millimeters. The average length for the three muscle fibers after adding the solution A which contained only 0.25% ATP in distilled water was 20 mm. The average length for the three muscle fibers after adding the solution C which contained 0.5M KCl and 0.001M MgCl2 in distilled water was 1.77 mm and the average length for the three muscle fibers after adding the solution B which contained 0.25 % ATP and 0.5 M KCl with 0.001 M Mgcl2 in water was 1.77 mm.

There are three types of muscle; skeletal (also known as striated), smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles move the bones, cardiac muscle is found in the heart, and smooth muscles line the organs and blood vessels . Although different in function, the basic structure of each type is similar . The experiment for this investigation was conducted using skeletal muscle, as it is common and easy to access when fresh. Meats that were bought from the butcher were used as they are skeletal muscle.

Rationale, Significance and Hypothesis. An extrinsic factor, which exerts a dominant influence on skeletal muscle fiber phenotype, is the nervous system. Buller et al. (1960) elegantly demonstrated the plastic nature of skeletal muscle fibers in response to changes in innervation type. Later, Lφmo and Westgaard (Lφmo and Westgaard, 1974; Westgaard and Lφmo, 1988) demonstrated that depolarization of muscle with specific patterns and frequencies of electrical activity are sufficient to cause changes in mature muscle fiber phenotypes. However, how myofibrillar gene expression and structural organization is affected by the frequency of impulses during activity, the amount of activity over time, or other characteristics of patterned activity is essentially unknown. To answer these questions will require the isolation and study of subsets of muscle-specific proteins in relation to different electrical activation patterns in vivo, an issue that cannot be easily addressed in preparations currently used in the study of muscle development and maintenance. However, using novel in vivo approaches can, in part, circumvent this difficulty.

10. two of the main types of muscle tissue correspond with muscles that are involuntary, they are cardiac muscle, which includes the heart. Smooth muscle, which is also involuntary, and includes the stomach, intestines, uterus, urethra, bladder, and blood vessels. The Skeletal muscles are voluntary, they’re attached to the bone and are used to affect skeletal movement.

Martini, F. H., Nath, J. L., and Bartholomew, E. F. “Muscle Tissue.” Anatomy & Physiology. 9th

The body has many amazing systems within it. The muscular system is on of the systems that is the most intriguing. Type I, Type IIa, and Type IIb comprise the muscular fiber types within the human body. Type I or Slow-twitch fibers contain mitochondria. These mitochondria use the oxygen that is taken in to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP fuels muscle contraction. Type I fiber is considered to be aerobic due to the use of oxygen. The slow-twitch muscle fibers are also known as red fibers. This alias is due to the dark red appearance cause by the amount of myoglobin within the fiber. Slow-twitch fibers are the first within the body to be activated due to having a lower activation threshold. They create their own energy source which allows these fibers to sustain force for a longer period of time. The negative aspect is they are unable to create a large amount of force. If the fibers are unable to generate the amount of force that is needed then the fast-twitch fibers will be activated.

Our body has three muscle types, skeletal muscle , cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle. Each muscle has different functions within the body. Cardiac muscle is located in the heart and is responsible for pumping blood within the heart. Cardiac muscle is one of the two muscles with an activity that is non-voluntary meaning that signal from the motor neuron is not required for blood to pump through the heart. The second type of muscle is smooth muscle which is located in the intestines and responsible for moving food and regulating blood pressure(Freeman, 2011). Like cardiac muscle, smooth muscle also requires non-voluntary activity, where the signal from the motor neurons is not required for it to function properly. Lastly, the most important muscle in the neuromuscular junction, skeletal muscles. Skeletal muscle is attached to the bones through tendons composed of connective tissue and is responsible for moving the skeleton, however unlike the other two muscle types, skeletal muscle requires voluntary activity meaning that signal from the motor neurons is required (Ritchison, 2016). In this paper, I will be discussing the functions and parts of the neuromuscular

In Anatomy and Physiology, one of the topics this class recently covered was the muscle system. In the video, “How Your Muscular System Works” published in 2017 by Emma Bryce said a brief explanation of how the muscular system works. In the video, Bryce stated, “Each time you take a step, two hundred muscles work in unison to lift your foot, propel it forward, and set it down.” Indeed, each muscle is responsible to do a specific movement. The muscle system is a very important system because this is where the three types of muscles come from. For example, in the video, it talked about the skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and the smooth muscle. The skeletal muscle is involuntary muscle and voluntary muscles. In addition, the cardiac muscle and the smooth muscle are only involuntary muscles. The cardiac muscle is only found in the heart. The smooth

There are the Smooth, the Skeletal, and the Cardiac muscular tissues. Smooth muscles are made of spindle-shaped cells.

    Have you ever wondered how the skeletal and muscular systems interact with each other? If so, read on for the following paragraph describes both systems and their interactions.