Objectives

1. List the functions of muscle.

2. Compare and contrast the muscle fiber
Muscular System Overview types.
3. Indicate where each muscle type is
found in the body
Chapter 6 4. Define and explain the role of the
connective tissue of the muscle
5. Describe the microscopic structure of
skeletal muscle

MUSCULAR SYSTEM Muscle Types

• Primary Purpose: • Skeletal
– contraction • Cardiac
• FUNCTIONS: • Smooth
– Produces movement Common features:
– Maintains posture – All elongated (muscle fibers)
– Stabilizes joints – Contraction depends on myofilaments
– Generates heat – Prefixes myo-, mys-, and sarco

SMOOTH MUSCLE CARDIAC MUSCLE

• Lines walls of hollow • Walls of heart
organs & blood • Slightly striated
vessels • Branched cells
• Lacks striations • Uninucleated
• Spindle shaped cells • Intercalated disks
• Uninucleated • involuntary
• Involuntary

1
 Connective Tissue Of Skeletal
SKELETAL MUSCLE Muscle(p. 156 Fig. 6-1)
• Attached to bone • Endomysium – encloses each individual
• Cylindrical shaped muscle fiber
cells • Perimysium – wraps several fibers
• Multinucleated together to form a bundle called a fasicle
• Striated • Epimysium – tough covering that binds
• Voluntary fasicles together
• Tendon – cord like; attach to bone
• Aponeuroses – sheet like; attach indirectly
to bone

http://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/bc_marieb_ehap_8/activities/index.html

http://www.northarundel.com/aniplayer/

MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF
MUSCLE
(p. 159 Fig. 6.3)

• Myofibril – bundle of myofilaments

- composed of repeated contractile units
called sarcomeres
• sarcomere contains light & dark bands that
run the length of the myofibril
– A band – dark
– I band – light
– Z line – midline of I band
– H zone – central area of A band

2
 • Myofilaments – individual fibers making
up myofibril
• 2 types:
a. Myosin (thick) – contain myosin protein &
ATPase – breaks down ATP to generate
energy
- Ends studded with myosin heads that act as
cross bridges to link thin & thick fibers
b. Actin (thin) – contain actin protein
- Smooth throughout
- Run from Z line to Z line

• Sarcolemma – cell membrane of muscle

cells
• Sarcoplasmic reticulum – specialized
smooth ER that surrounds the myofibril
• Stores Ca that is released on demand
during a muscle contraction

http://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/bc_marieb_ehap_8/activities/index.html