ANAT2341 Lab 7

Embryology - 6 May 2024        Expand to Translate
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Muscle Development

Introduction

Skeletal Muscle

This laboratory concerns the development and differentiation of skeletal muscle, fibre type differentiation, muscle stem cells and muscle disease.

The histology of skeletal muscle has been covered in ANAT2241.

Objectives

1. Understand the origin, differentiation and development of skeletal muscle tissue.
2. Know what is meant by patterning, conversion and adult plasticity of muscle fibre type.
3. Develop an understanding of research methods for studying skeletal muscle abnormalities.

Muscle Contraction

Crossbridge animation	Component proteins
Sarcomere Animation	Muscle Histology

Sarcomere - Electron Microscopy

Virtual Slides
Skeletal Muscle EM1  ‎‎Mobile | Desktop | Original Skeletal Muscle | EM Slides	Skeletal Muscle EM2  ‎‎Mobile | Desktop | Original Skeletal Muscle | EM Slides	Skeletal Muscle EM3  ‎‎Mobile | Desktop | Original Skeletal Muscle | EM Slides

Skeletal Muscle Histology

Muscle Fibre Types

Type I fibres Red muscles contain predominantly (but not exclusively) red muscle cells. Red muscle fibres are comparatively thin and contain large amounts of myoglobin and mitochondria. Red fibres contain an isoform of myosin with low ATPase activity, i.e. the speed with which myosin is able to use up ATP. Contraction is therefore slow. Red muscles are used when sustained production of force is necessary, e.g. in the control of posture. Type II fibres White muscle cells, which are predominantly found in white muscles, are thicker and contain less myoglobin. ATPase activity of the myosin isoform in white fibres is high, and contraction is fast. Type IIA fibres (red) contain many mitochondria and are available for both sustained activity and short-lasting, intense contractions. Type IIB/IIX fibres (white) contain only few mitochondria. They are recruited in the case of rapid accelerations and short lasting maximal contraction. Type IIB/IIX fibres rely on anaerobic glycolysis to generate the ATP needed for contraction.

Muscular Dystrophies

Dystrophy refers to the degeneration of a tissue, muscular dystrophy is degeneration of skeletal muscle.

• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - (DMD) The most common occuring in Boys and in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
• Autosomal Recessive Muscular Dystrophy - Dystroglycan, a protein that associates with both dystrophin and membrane molecules, is a candidate gene for the site of the mutation in autosomal recessive muscular dystrophies. A knockout mouse has been generated that has early developmental abnormalities.
• Myotonic Dystrophy - An inherited disorder in which the muscles contract but have decreasing power to relax. With this condition, the muscles also become weak and waste away. The myotonic dystrophy gene, found on chromosome 19, codes for a protein kinase that is found in skeletal muscle, where it likely plays a regulatory role. The disease is "amplified" through generations probably by a similar GC expansion associated with Huntington disease.
• Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy - (FSHD) This form of muscular dystrophy is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting that typically begins in the face, shoulder-girdle and upper arm. Currently thought to relate to an impaired muscle regeneration process.

Lab 7 Assessment Questions

TBA

Search

• Bookshelf muscle development | muscle fiber type | troponin

• Pubmed muscle fiber type | troponin | Gtf2ird1 |

Terms

anterior tibialis - (tibialis anterior) skeletal muscle situated on the lateral side of the tibia and is a direct flexor of the foot at the ankle-joint.

cis-acting elements - DNA sequences that through transcription factors or other trans-acting elements or factors, regulate the expression of genes on the same chromosome.

enhancer - A cis-regulatory sequence that can regulate levels of transcription from an adjacent promoter. Many tissue-specific enhancers can determine spatial patterns of gene expression in higher eukaryotes. Enhancers can act on promoters over many tens of kilobases of DNA and can be 5' or 3' to the promoter they regulate.

extensor digitorum longus - (EDL) skeletal muscle situated at the lateral part of the front of the leg and extend the phalanges of the toes, and, continuing their action, flex the foot upon the leg.

Gtf2ird1 - General Transcription Factor 2 -I Repeat domain-containing protein 1. OMIM: Gtf2ird1

MusTRD1 - muscle TFII-I repeat domain-containing protein 1.

MyHC - acronym for myosin heavy chain.

myoblast - the undifferentiated mononucleated muscle cell progenitor, which in skeletal muscle fuses to form a myotube, that in turn expresses contractile proteins to form a muscle fibre.

myosin heavy chain - protein forming the thick filament of the sarcomere and the motor for actin-myosin contraction. There are 17 different myosin classes.

myotube - the initial multinucleated cell formed by fusion of myoblasts during skeletal muscle development.

promoter - A regulatory region a short distance upstream from the 5' end of a transcription start site that acts as the binding site for RNA polymerase II. A region of DNA to which RNA polymerase IIbinds in order to initiate transcription.

regulatory sequence - (regulatory region, regulatory area) is a segment of DNA where regulatory proteins such as transcription factors bind preferentially.

soleus - skeletal muscle situated immediately in front of the gastrocnemius and when standing taking its fixed point from below, steadies the leg upon the foot and prevents the body from falling forward.

Troponin - striated muscle contraction is regulated by the calcium-ion-sensitive, multiprotein complex troponin and the fibrous protein tropomyosin. Troponin has 3 subunits (TnC, TnI, TnT) and is located on the actin filament. OMIM: Troponin I slow

visuospatial deficiency - performing the Delis hierarchical processing task, subjects are asked to copy a large global figure made of smaller local forms. Both Down syndrome (DS) and William-Beuren syndrome (WBS) groups fail but in different ways. WBS individuals produce the local elements and DS individuals produce only the global forms. PMID: 12952863 Hum Mol Genet.

William-Beuren syndrome - (WBS) rare developmental disorder (1/20,000–1/50,000 live births). A contiguous gene deletion syndrome resulting from the hemizygous deletion of several genes on chromosome 7q11.23. The syndrome has associated craniofacial abnormalities, hypersociability and visuospatial defects. OMIM: William-Beuren syndrome

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• Blue Histology Skeletal Muscle histology
• PLOS Currents - Muscular Dystrophy
• OMIM
• Primer Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type: Influence on Contractile and Metabolic Properties

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References

ANAT2341 Course Timetable
Week (Mon)	Lecture 1 (Mon 1-2pm)	Lecture 2 (Tue 3-4pm)	Practical (Fri 1-3pm)
Week 2 (1 Aug)	Introduction	Fertilization	Lab 1
Week 3 (8 Aug)	Week 1 and 2	Week 3	Lab 2
Week 4 (15 Aug)	Mesoderm	Ectoderm	Lab 3
Week 5 (22 Aug)	Early Vascular	Placenta	Lab 4
Week 6 (29 Aug)	Gastrointestinal	Respiratory	Lab 5
Week 7 (5 Sep)	Head	Neural Crest	Lab 6
Week 8 (12 Sep)	Musculoskeletal	Limb Development	Lab 7
Week 9 (19 Sep)	Renal	Genital	Lab 8
Mid-semester break
Week 10 (3 Oct)	Public Holiday	Stem Cells	Lab 9
Week 11 (10 Oct)	Integumentary	Endocrine	Lab 10
Week 12 (17 Oct)	Heart	Sensory	Lab 11
Week 13 (24 Oct)	Fetal	Birth and Revision	Lab 12
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