The Strength Of The Muscular System

Muscle fibres, as shown in Diagram 1, consist of myofibrils, which contain the proteins, actin and myosin, in specific arrangements . The diagram illustrates how a muscle is made up of many fascicles, which in turn are made up of many endomysiums, and within them, many muscle fibres. Each muscle fibre is made up of many myofibrils that consist of sarcomeres bound end on end . Actin is a thin filament, about 7nm in diameter, and myosin is a thick filament, about 15nm in diameter , both of which reside in the sarcomere. They are held together by transverse bands known as Z lines . Diagram 2 shows actin and myosin filaments within a sarcomere, and the Z lines that connect them.

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.

Myofibrils are made up of long proteins that include myosin, titin, and actin while other proteins bind them together. These proteins are arranged into thin and thick filaments that are repetitive along the myofibril in sectors known as sarcomeres. The sliding of actin and myosin filaments along each other is when the muscle is contracting. Dark A-bands and light I-bands reappear along myofibrils. The alignment of myofibrils causes an appearance of the cell to look banded or striated. A myofibril is made up of lots of sarcomeres. As the sarcomeres contract individually the muscle cells and myofibrils shorten in length. The longitudinal section of skeletal muscle exhibits a unique pattern of alternating light and dark bands. The dark staining, A-bands possess a pale region in the middle called the H-zone. In the middle of the H-zone the M-line is found, that displays filamentous structures that can join the thick filaments. The light-staining bands also known as I-bands are divided by thin Z-line. These striated patterns appear because of the presence of myofibrils in the sarcoplasm (IUPUI, 2016).

Actin and myosin are contractile proteins that are essential for muscle contraction (Powers). A contraction is triggered by a series of events called the crossbridge cycle. In a muscle fiber, the functional unit of contraction is called a sarcomere (Powers). A sarcomere contains myofibrils, which consist of actin and myosin myofilaments. The sarcomere shortens when myosin heads and thick myofilaments form crossbridges with actin molecules and thin myofilaments. The formation of a crossbridge is initiated when calcium ions released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum bind to troponin. An action potential triggers this release of these ions. The binding of calcium ions causes troponin to change shape. Tropomyosin moves away from the myosin binding cites on actin, allowing the myosin head to bind actin and form a crossbridge. When ATP on the myosin head has not been hydrolyzed yet, the myosin head is inactivated, or in the uncocked position. The myosin head has to be activated before a crossbridge cycle can begin (Powers). This occurs when ATP binds to the myosin head and is hydrolyzed to Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) and an inorganic phosphate. The enzyme that breaks this ATP down is called myosin ATPase, which is located on the myosin head. The energy from the hydrolysis activates the myosin head putting it into the cocked position. The activated myosin head binds to actin forming a crossbridge. Then inorganic

Actin and Myosin proteins serve the primary role of producing muscle contraction. Myosin molecules will create pressure in the skeletal muscle, where ATP hydrolysis causes Myosin to bind to Actin. A conformational change of the molecule then result in Myosin being

Actin and myosin filaments can be found in skeletal muscle and are the smallest units that form a sarcomere, which is the smallest contractile unit in muscle (Baechle, 2008). The Sliding Filament Theory states that the actin filaments slide inward on the myosin filaments, pulling on the boundaries of the sarcomere, causing it to shorten the muscle fiber, also known as a concentric muscular contraction (Baechle, 2008). The Sliding Filament Theory is composed of five steps: the “Resting Phase”, the “Excitation-Contraction Coupling Phase”, the “Contraction Phase”, the “Recharge Phase”, and the “Relaxation Phase” (Baechle, 2008). During the Resting Phase, the actin and myosin filaments are lined up with no cross-bridge binding of the two filaments. During the Excitation-Contraction Coupling Phase, Calcium is released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum and binds to troponin, causing a shift in tropomyosin where the binding cites are exposed (Baechle, 2008). When the binding cites are exposed, the myosin cross-bridge head attaches to actin. During the Contraction Phase, ATP bonds break, releasing energy that is used to allow the myosin head to flex, causing the actin filaments to move toward the M-bridge. During the Recharge Phase, there is a continuous repetition of the Excitation-Contraction Coupling Phase and the Contraction Phase in order to produce muscular

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The collective bending of numerous myosin heads (all in the same direction), combine to move the actin filament relative to the myosin filament. This results in muscle contraction in the upper arm.

I think anatomical and metabolic makes where fast, slow and intermediate muscle fibers. The type one makes it where it is red in the color in the myoglobin. This fiber arc needs to be rich in this mitochondria and oxidative enzymes because it is where a poor in phosphorylases this is because it makes a well-developed aerobic metabolism and this where the slow fiber makes it to where its highly resistant to where you can become fatigue. Features that can summarized the slow muscle are the large enough amounts of myoglobin to so many mitochondria to having to many blood capillaries and having to generate atp by having the aerobic system to hence term to oxidative fibers to where splitting ATP to the slow rate. To having the slowest contraction velocity to

We used the differentiated cells C2C12 myoblast to help us determine the difference in the muscle cells. These cells are signal through the

Millions of athletes, trainers, children, and adults, anyone who has ever participated in physical activity, knows the pain of waking up the next morning hardly able to move from sore muscles. This log will be discussing the muscular system, and more specifically how exercise affects it.

Skeletal muscle cells (single cell with many nuclei) are cells that are often under voluntary control. Skeletal muscle cells are attached to bones of the body and assist in bone movement. Attached to the bone via tendons (strong bands of connective tissue) is the belly of the muscle which alternates in thickness. Connective tissue also creates a sheath, binding together groups of muscle cells. Every skeletal muscle cell is arranged length ways adjacent to one another comprised of a multitude of myofibrils. Surrounding each skeletal muscle cell is the sarcolemma with contains sarcoplasm. A sarcomere has two recognisably different bands, one light, one dark. The I band is light in colour and represents where

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The basic unit of muscle contraction is the sacromere. The sacromeres are attached at Z lines, made from actin filament. These Z lines give skeletal muscle its striated appearance. In each sacromere, there is an A band, this is where actin and myosin overlap. This overlap is the point of connection when shortening takes place. This shortening is a part of a theory called the Sliding Filament Theory. The Sliding Filament Theory explains how when a muscle is stimulated the