Transcript Monday Oct
26 October 2010
This Week in Physiology:
Lab: Frog Muscle Physiology
Lectures: Wednesday: Ch. 9 Muscle Physiology
Friday Finish Muscle, then Ch. 10 Control of Movement
Abstracts due Friday
Test on Monday
Coverage to be posted to Website
Starts with Nervous System
Ends with Muscle Physiology
1QQ # 22 for 8:30 am
1. What events occur during the latent period before a
muscle develops tension?
2. Once a muscle is stretched greater than 120% of its
optimal length, what happens?
3. As a muscle contracts,
a) A bands get narrower
b) I bands get narrower
c) H bands get narrower
d) Z lines move closer together
e) M lines move closer together
1QQ # 22 for 9:30 am
1. What term applies to the type of muscle
contraction where the tension developed is less
than the load on the muscle?
2. What are the three roles of ATP in skeletal
myofibers?
3. What causes a muscle contraction to end?
S1
Fig. 09.13
Motor unit = a single somatic motor neuron
and all the muscle fibers in innervates
S2
Size Principle
S3
Increasing tension in a whole muscle
• Frequency of stimulation of motor neuron
• Activate larger motor units
– Recruitment: activate more motor units
• These factors also influence actual tension
– Fiber length (length-tension) relationship
– Fiber diameter
– Level of fatigue (state of activity)
S4
Muscle Metabolism
• Fiber types
– Speed of myosin ATPase (fixed for a cell)
• Slow isozyme = slow twitch = Type I
• Fast isozyme = fast twitch = Type II
– Metabolic sources of ATP
• Oxidative phosphorylation
• Glycolytic
– Timing of fatigue
• Oxidative = fatigue resistant
• Glycolytic = fatigue quickly (but recover quickly)
S5
Classes of Myofibers based on Twitch Duration
Each muscle fiber express only one of two
different myosins isozymes:
• Fast twitch = rapid hydrolysis of ATP means
crossbridges cycle faster
• Slow twitch = slower hydrolysis, isozyme
catalyzes the reaction slower
Isozymes not modified by athletic training!
Contraction velocity also affected by load!
S5
Lifting a load
and contraction velocity
S 7 Comparison of contraction time (measured?): extraocular muscle
(IR, internal rectus), gastrocnemius (G), and soleus (S)
Whole muscles consist of many motor units.
Each motor unit has myofibers of only one type (I, IIA or IIB)
S8
Classes of Myofibers based on
Metabolism and Enzyme profiles
• Oxidative: at peak activity rely on full aerobic
cellular respiration
– many mitochondria, enzymes for oxidative
phosphorylation, numerous capillaries, lots of
myoglobin (red)
• Glycolytic: at peak activity rely on glycolysis
– few mitochondria, many glycolytic enzymes, large
store of glycogen, fewer capillaries, little
myoglobin (white)
S9
Type I
Type II A
Fig. 09.03
Type II B
S 10
3 Sources of ATP in muscle
Powerstroking &
Disconnecting crossbridges
Creatine phosphate, then oxidative phosphorylation (OP) from
glycogen, then OP from blood glucose, then blood fatty acids. If
intense, switch to glycolysis… then take a breather… oxygen debt
S 11
A 1998 Review on the
Use of Creatine as a
Nutritional Supplement
S 12
Type I
What are the causes of
fatigue?
Type IIA
Depends on the type of
activity…
Type IIB
S 13
Causes of fatigue
• High intensity, short duration exercise
– Conduction failure in t-tubules
– Lactic acid accumulation
– Accumulation of ADP and inorganic phosphate
• Low intensity, long duration exercise
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–
–
–
As above, and
Depletion of muscle glycogen
Low plasma glucose (hypoglycemia)
Dehydration
• Control pathways: “willpower”
– Common in couch potatoes
S 14
Fig. 09.26
Relationship between
recruitment and fiber type
S 15
S 16
Read section of
King et al., 1999
that deals with
analysis of muscle
biopsy material in
subjects taking
Andro or placebo
while resistance
training.
What changes
were expected?
What changes
were observed?
Fig. 09.24b