BIOM 4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: T-Tubule, Autoimmune Disease, Motor Unit

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Highly cellular, mostly muscle cells with some connective tissue. Organized as parallel arrays of elongate cells. Cells specialized for contraction and force generation. Abundant actin and myosin cytoskeletal filaments very eosinphohilic cytoplasm. Sarcolemma = plasma membrane of muscle cell (and overlying ct) Sarcoplasmic reticulum = modified smooth er of muscle cell. 3 types of muscle tissue: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. Mostly due to differences in contractile filament arrangement and control of contraction. Moves the skeletal (exceptions tongue, extra-ocular muscles) Cell morphology: elongated, very large cells with multiple nuclei at periphery. Control of contraction: primarily voluntary, each cell is innervated. Cell morphology: branched, large cells with central nuclei (occasionally binculeate) Myofilaments: extensive; arranged in obvious sarcomeres, can see striations. Cell morphology: fusiform shaped cells with single, central nuclei. Myofilaments: not very extensive, sarcomeres not obvious, no striations. Control of contraction: primarily involuntary, not all cells innervated. Actin (thin) and myosin (thick) filaments (myofilaments) organized into sarcomeres that repeat end to end.

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