What's the difference between muscle and sarcolemma?
Muscle
Definition:
(n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
(n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
(n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
(n.) See Mussel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(3) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(4) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(5) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(6) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(7) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(8) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(10) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(11) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
(12) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(13) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
(14) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(15) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(16) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
(17) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(18) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(19) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(20) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
Sarcolemma
Definition:
(n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three distinct G-proteins have been found in mammalian heart sarcolemma: Gi (alpha i = 40 kDa, beta = 36 kDa, and lambda less than 14 kDa), Gp (alpha p = 23 kDa, beta = 36 kDa, and lambda less than 14 kDa), and Gs (alpha s = 42 kDa).
(2) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
(3) Here we show that antibodies directed against synthetic peptides and fusion proteins derived from the N-terminal region of human DMD cDNA strongly react with an antigen present in skeletal muscle sarcolemma on cryostat sections of normal human muscle biopsies.
(4) Leucyl-beta-naphthylamidase and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase showed both cytosol and sarcolemma components.
(5) Ca2+-ATPase of rats and rabbits skeletal muscle sarcolemma was studied as affected by relaxants: tubocurarine, myorelaxin and dioxonium, and by anesthetic fluothane in experiments in vitro and in vivo with lung artificial ventilation during curarization.
(6) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
(7) Na, K-ATPase activity of the rat and guinea-pig myocardial sarcolemma and its sensitivity to digoxin (DG) and carbamylcholine (CCh) were investigated during experimental ischemia.
(8) Synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) by S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet)-dependent methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) has been recently characterized in rat heart sarcolemma obtained by hypotonic shock-LiBr treatment method.
(9) The rate of nonspecific (non-receptor protein) drug binding to highly purified sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes essentially devoid of specific receptors for these drugs appears to be extremely fast, at least 10(3) times faster than specific drug binding to the receptor in the sarcolemma.
(10) This result suggests that felodipine may inhibity Ca++ release from intracellular Ca++ stores through a mechanism of Ca++ or inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate induced Ca++ release in addition to a blockade of Ca++ influx through the sarcolemma.
(11) An accompanying outward release of protons from localized regions of the sarcolemma (Ca2+ channels?)
(12) These confocal microscopic observations suggest that dystrophin may be localized in a nonuniform, discontinuous pattern along the sarcolemma and in some relationship with the underlying myofibrils.
(13) Employing an enriched cardiac sarcolemma preparation and a (Ca2+, Mg2+)-ATPase fraction isolated from this preparation, this study demonstrates that cholesterol directly interacts with the sarcolemmal calcium pump importantly inhibiting its enzyme activity.
(14) These membranes are identified as being of sarcolemmal origin by enrichment of marker activities associated with the sarcolemma (e.g., binding of the ligands PN 200-110, iodocyanopindolol, and ouabain).
(15) Thick and thin myofilaments appear first in the cell periphery near the sarcolemma.
(16) Kinetic assessment indicated that alpha-agonists led to an increase in the number of electron efflux sites in the ventricular sarcolemma.
(17) This exceeded the maximal endogenous concentrations of 3.2(0.6) nmol long chain fatty acylcarnitine per mg sarcolemma protein observed during myocardial ischaemia.
(18) Subsarcolemmal S1-decorated actin filaments had mixed polarity and attached to the sarcolemma at one end.
(19) This is consistent with the hypothesis that a small net influx of Ca2+ across the sarcolemma during long diastoles was responsible for loading of the reticulum and enhancement of F at low frequencies.
(20) Fast twitch fibres of rat and rabbit show rectangular patterns of intramembrane particles in freeze-fracture preparations of the sarcolemma.