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.