Thursday, May 2, 2013

Extrinsic tongue muscle


  1. Genioglossus
  2. Chondroglossus
  3. Hyoglossus
  4. Styloglossus
  5. All innervated by hypoglossal nerve.

External eye muscle


  • Levator palpebrae superioris:
  1. Forms levator aponeurosis
  2. Inserts on superior tarsal plate and skin of upper eyelid
  3. Oculomotor nerve
  • Superior rectus: oculomotor nerve
  • Superior oblique: trochlear nerve
  • Medial rectus: oculomotor nerve
  • Lateral rectus: abducens nerve
  • Inferior rectus: oculomotor nerve
  • Inferior oblique: oculomotor nerve

Two muscles of the middle ear


  • Tensor tympani
  1. Mandibular branch of trigeminal nerve
  2. Reduce chewing sounds and loud noise
  • Stapedius
  1. Facial nerve
  2. Reduce chewing sounds and loud noise

Differences among skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle


  • Skeletal muscle:
  1. Striated
  2. Unbranched
  3. Z line
  4. Multinuclei, peripheral
  5. T tubules forms triad at A-I junction
  6. No gap junctions
  • Cardiac muscle:
  1. Striated
  2. Branched
  3. Z line
  4. One nucleus, center
  5. T tubules forms dyad at Z line
  6. Intercalated discs, gap junctions
  • Smooth muscle:
  1. No striated
  2. No Z line
  3. Dense bodies
  4. One nucleus
  5. No T tubules
  6. Gap junctions

Scaffolding proteins of skeletal muscles


  1. Nebulin: along actin to Z line
  2. Titin: along myosin to Z line

Two types of skeletal muscle


  • Red skeletal muscle fibers:
  1. Type I
  2. high myoglobin & mitochondria content
  3. aerobic
  4. low ATPase
  5. slow movement muscle, posture-maintainig muscle
  • White skeletal muscle fibers:
  1. Type II
  2. low myoglobin & mitochondria content
  3. anaerobic
  4. high ATPase
  5. fast movement muscle: eye muscles, hands, legs

Skeletal muscle


  1. Sarcolemma (muscle cell membrane), endomysium (CT arround sarcolema), perimysium, epimysium
  2. Multiple nuclei, peripheral
  3. Limited ability to regenerate
  4. Stem cells: satellite cells. Low satellite cell numbers in muscular dystrophy.