Smooth muscle & Contraction of Smooth

muscle

By: Ariel Jackson & Shamar Lamb

Things we need 2 talk about

• Relaxed smooth muscle cell• Contracted smooth muscle cell• Arrangement of smooth muscle in the walls of hollow organs• Innervation of smooth muscle----• Dense bodies*-----• Calmodulin• Light chain kinase• Stress-relaxation response----• Single-unit smooth muscle• Visceral muscle• Multiunit smooth muscle

Smooth Muscle Tissue

Arrangement of Smooth Muscle in the walls of the Small Intestine

Circular layer of Smooth Muscle

Longitudinal layer of Smooth Muscle

Mucosa

Submucosa

Calmodulin

Myosin light chain kinase

Smooth Muscle

VS.

Bibliography

• http://massasoit-bio.net/courses/201/201_content/topicdir/muscle/muscle_RG/muscle_RG13/files/BIGfigure_09_28_labeled.jpg.jpg

• http://www.unm.edu/~jimmy/smooth_muscle_arrangement.jpg

• http://0.tqn.com/d/chemistry/1/0/b/C/1/Calmodulin.jpg

• http://www.abcam.com/ps/datasheet/images/76/ab76092/Myosin-light-chain-kinase-Primary-antibodies-ab76092-6.jpg

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Glatte_Muskelzellen.jpg/250px-Glatte_Muskelzellen.jpg

• http://www.uic.edu/classes/phyb/phyb516/sm1b.gif