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Structural Support and Movement
Chapter 36
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Impacts, Issues
Pumping Up Muscles
Increasing muscle size and strength with drugs
such as “andro” has unwanted side effects and
can damage other organ systems
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36.1 Invertebrate Skeletons
Hydrostatic skeleton
• An enclosed fluid that contracting muscles act
upon (as in sea anemones, earthworms)
Exoskeleton
• A hardened external skeleton found in some
mollusks and all arthropods
Endoskeleton
• An internal skeleton, as in echinoderms
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Hydrostatic Skeleton: Sea Anemone
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Hydrostatic Skeleton: Earthworm
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Exoskeleton: Fly
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Exoskeleton: Spider
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36.1 Key Concepts
Invertebrate Skeletons
Contractile force exerted against a skeleton moves animal bodies
In many invertebrates a fluid-filled body cavity is a hydrostatic skeleton
Others have an exoskeleton of hard structures at the body surface
Still others have a hard internal skeleton, or endoskeleton
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36.2 The Vertebrate Endoskeleton
All vertebrates have an endoskeleton
• Usually consists primarily of bones
• Supports the body, site of muscle attachment
• Protects the spinal cord
The vertebral column (backbone) is made up of
individual vertebrae separated by
intervertebral disks made of cartilage
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Axial and Appendicular Skeleton
Axial skeleton
• Skull
• Vertebral column
• Ribs
Appendicular skeleton
• Pectoral girdle
• Pelvic girdle
• Limbs
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Skeletal Elements: Fish and Reptile
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The Human Skeleton
Some features of the human skeleton are
adaptations to upright posture and walking
• Foramen magnum at the base of the skull allows
brain and spinal cord to connect
• Vertebrae stacked one above the other in an S
curve
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Bones of the Human Skeleton
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36.3 Bone Structure and Function
Bones have a variety of shapes and sizes
• Long bones (arms and legs)
• Flat bones (skull, ribs)
• Short bones (carpals)
The human skeleton has 206 bones ranging
from tiny ear bones to the massive femur
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Bone Anatomy
Bones consist of three types of living cells in a
secreted extracellular matrix
• Osteoblasts build bones
• Osteocytes are mature osteoblasts
• Osteoclasts break down bone matrix
Bone cavities contain bone marrow
• Red marrow in spongy bone forms blood cells
• Yellow marrow in long bones is mostly fat
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Bone Anatomy: Long Bone
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Bone Functions
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Bone Formation and Remodeling
The embryonic skeleton consists of cartilage
which is modeled into bone, grows until early
adulthood, and is constantly remodeled
Bones and teeth store the body’s calcium
• Calcitonin slows release of calcium from bones
• Parathyroid hormone releases bone calcium
• Sex hormones encourage bone building
• Cortisol slows bone building
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Long Bone Formation
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About Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis (“porous bones”)
• When more calcium is removed from bone than is
deposited, bone become brittle and break easily
Proper diet and exercise help keep bones
healthy
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Osteoporosis
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36.4 Skeletal Joints—Where Bones Meet
Joint
• Area of contact or near contact between bones
Three types of joints
• Fibrous joints (teeth sockets): no movement
• Cartilaginous joints (vertebrae): little movement
• Synovial joints (knee): much movement
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Synovial Joints
In synovial joints, bones are separated by a fluid-
filled cavity, padded with cartilage, and held
together by dense connective tissue (ligaments)
Different synovial joints have different movements
• Ball-and-socket joints (shoulder)
• Gliding joints (wrist and ankles)
• Hinged joints (elbows and knees)
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Three Types of Joints
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Three Types of Joints
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36.5 Those Aching Joints
We ask a lot of our joints when we engage in
sports, carry out repetitive tasks, or strap on a
pair of high heels
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Joint Injuries and Diseases
Common joint injuries
• Sprained ankle; torn cruciate ligaments in knee;
torn meniscus in knee; dislocations
Arthritis (chronic inflammation)
• Osteoarthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; gout
Bursitis (inflammation of a bursa)
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36.2-36.5 Key Concepts
Vertebrate Skeletons
Vertebrates have an endoskeleton of cartilage, bone, or both
Bones interact with muscles to move the body; they also protect and support organs, and store minerals
Blood cells form in some bones
A joint is a place where bones meet; there are several kinds
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36.6 Skeletal–Muscular Systems
Muscle fibers
• Long, cylindrical cells with multiple nuclei that
hold contractile filaments
Tendons attach skeletal muscle to bone
• Muscle contraction transmits force to bone and
makes it move
Muscles and bones interact as a lever system
• Many skeletal muscles work in opposing pairs
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Skeletal–Muscular Action
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Opposing Muscle Groups
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Muscles and Tendons
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Muscles and Tendons
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36.6 Key Concepts
The Muscle–Bone Partnership
Skeletal muscles are bundles of muscle fibers
that interact with bones and with one another
Some cause movements by working as pairs or
groups; others oppose or reverse the action of a
partner muscle
Tendons attach skeletal muscles to bones
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36.7 How Does Skeletal Muscle Contract?
Myofibrils (bundles of contractile filaments) run
the length of the muscle fiber
Myofibrils are divided into bands (striations) that
define units of contraction (sarcomeres)
• Z-bands attach sarcomeres to each other
Sarcomeres contain two types of filaments
• Thin, globular protein filaments (actin)
• Thick, motor protein filaments (myosin)
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Fine Structure of Skeletal Muscle
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The Sliding Filament Model
Sliding filament model
• Interactions among protein filaments within a
muscle fiber’s individual contractile units
(sarcomeres) bring about muscle contraction
• A sarcomere shortens when actin filaments are
pulled toward the center of the sarcomere by
ATP-fueled interactions with myosin filaments
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The Sliding Filament Model
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36.8 From Signal to Response:
A Closer Look at Contraction
Like neurons, muscle cells are excitable
• Skeletal muscle contracts in response to a signal
from a motor neuron
• Release of ACh at a neuromuscular junction
causes an action potential in the muscle cell
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Nervous Control of Contraction
Action potentials travel along muscle plasma
membrane, down T tubules, to the sarcoplasmic
reticulum (a smooth endoplasmic reticulum)
Action potentials open voltage-gated channels in
sarcoplasmic reticulum, triggering calcium
release that allows contraction in myofibrils
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Nervous Control of Contraction
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The Roles of Troponin and Tropomyosin
Two proteins regulate bonding of actin to myosin
• Tropomyosin prevents actin from binding to myosin
• Troponin has calcium binding sites
Calcium binds to troponin, which pulls tropomyosin
away from myosin-binding sites on actin
Cross-bridges form, sarcomeres shorten, and
muscle contracts
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Interactions of Actin,
Tropomyosin, and Troponin
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36.9 Energy for Contraction
Multiple metabolic pathways can supply the ATP
required for muscle contraction
Muscles use any stored ATP, then transfer
phosphate from creatine phosphate to ADP to
form ATP
With ongoing exercise, aerobic respiration and
lactic acid fermentation supply ATP
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Three Metabolic Pathways Supply ATP
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36.10 Properties of Whole Muscles
Motor unit
• One motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers its
axons synapse with
Muscle twitch
• Contraction produced by brief stimulation of a
motor unit
Tetanus
• A sustained contraction caused by repeated
stimulation of a motor unit in a short interval
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Muscle Twitch and Tetanus
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Motor Units and Muscle Tension
Muscle tension
• The mechanical force exerted by a muscle
• The more motor units stimulated, the greater the
muscle tension
A load opposes muscle tension
• Isotonic contraction: muscle shorten and move
the load
• Isometric contraction: muscles tense but do not
shorten or move the load
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Isotonic and Isometric Contraction
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Fatigue, Exercise, and Aging
Muscle fatigue
• Decrease in capacity to generate force; muscle
tension declines despite repeated stimulation
• Aerobic exercise makes muscles more resistant
to fatigue (increases blood supply, mitochondria)
• Intense exercise increases actin and myosin
All muscle fibers form before birth; number and
size of muscle fibers decline as people age
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36.11 Disruption of Muscle Contraction
Some genetic disorders, diseases, or toxins can
cause muscles to contract too little or too much
• Muscular dystrophy (X-linked disorder)
• Motor neuron disorders (polio, ALS)
• Botulism (Clostridium botulinum toxin) and
tetanus (C. tetani toxin)
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Muscular Dystrophy
Muscle fibers break down, muscles fail – death
results from respiratory failure
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Tetanus
C. tetani infection, preventable by tetanus vaccine
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36.7-36.11 Key Concepts
Skeletal Muscle Function
Muscle fibers contract in response to signals
from a motor neuron
A muscle fiber contains many myofibrils, each
divided crosswise into sarcomeres
ATP-driven interactions between protein
filaments shorten sarcomeres, causing muscle
contraction