GUIDE QUESTIONS: MUSCLES

1. What are basis for classifying muscles?

2.Describe the connective tissue that invest the skeletal muscles: endomysium;
perimysium; endomysium.
3. Describe the terms: aponeuroses; fascicles; sarcolemma; sarcoplasmic reticulum;
4. Describe the ultrastructure of muscles: transverse tubules; myofibrils;
myofilaments (A bands, I bands; Z discs.
5. What are the different proteins that compose the myofibrils: actin, myosin,
troponin, nebulin, tropomodulin, tropmyosin, titin
5. Describe the characteristics of red (type I) and white muscle (type 2B) fibers
and intermediate (Type 2A).8. Describe the events of
6. Describe the skeletal muscle cross striatioms: A bands, I bands, H bands, M lines,
Z discs.
7. Describe the molecular organization of myofilaments:
Thin filaments: F-actin, tropomyosin, troponin, tropomodulin
Thick filaments: myosin Ii, myomesin, C protein, titin.
8. Describe the events of skeletal muscle contraction.
9. Describe the innervation of skeletal muscle: myoneural junction; conduction of
nerve impulse across a myoneural junction.
10. Describe the features of cardiac muscles; structural components.
11. Describe the structure of the visceral muscles; differentiate the contraction of
smooth muscles with the skeletal muscle.