The Sliding Filament Theory in my own terms...
So there's this guy. His name is acetylcholine but we'll call him ACh for short.
So ACh gets a message from his neurotransmitter and is informed to pass it on. So he knocks on the door of a guy name action potential (we'll call him AP).
AP is like oh man I gotta tell the news to my kids! So AP decides to tell his kids the news but first picks up some milk and cookies(calcium) from the refrigerator (sarcoplasmic reticulum) while running down a long hallway (transverse tubules) to get to his kids doors.
He's got two kids in each room, troponin and tropomyosin. The kids are always together and holding each others hands until they get their milk and cookies. So when the kids get the milk and cookies they finally let go of eachother and enjoy their afternoon snack.
So while troponin and tropomyosin were joined together tropomyosin also held their puppy actin very close and would never let him run off. But when tropomyosin gets her milk and cookies she's so distracted she lets go of actin who runs wild cause he's tired of being held.
Actin then finds his chew toy, myosin. Actin loves playing with myosin because it makes a squeaky noise everytime he chews it. The squeaky noise is also known as ATP. Everyone loves the cute squeaky sound of ATP so the whole process is worth it in the long run but it can't start again without new from ACh who has now been dragged home by his wife Acetylcholinerase and is waiting for his next message from Mr. neurotransmitter.
This is how I learned how a muscle contracts! If you'd like to see the real thing click on the link below. Wish me luck on my muscle exam!
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/matthews/myosin.html
So ACh gets a message from his neurotransmitter and is informed to pass it on. So he knocks on the door of a guy name action potential (we'll call him AP).
AP is like oh man I gotta tell the news to my kids! So AP decides to tell his kids the news but first picks up some milk and cookies(calcium) from the refrigerator (sarcoplasmic reticulum) while running down a long hallway (transverse tubules) to get to his kids doors.
He's got two kids in each room, troponin and tropomyosin. The kids are always together and holding each others hands until they get their milk and cookies. So when the kids get the milk and cookies they finally let go of eachother and enjoy their afternoon snack.
So while troponin and tropomyosin were joined together tropomyosin also held their puppy actin very close and would never let him run off. But when tropomyosin gets her milk and cookies she's so distracted she lets go of actin who runs wild cause he's tired of being held.
Actin then finds his chew toy, myosin. Actin loves playing with myosin because it makes a squeaky noise everytime he chews it. The squeaky noise is also known as ATP. Everyone loves the cute squeaky sound of ATP so the whole process is worth it in the long run but it can't start again without new from ACh who has now been dragged home by his wife Acetylcholinerase and is waiting for his next message from Mr. neurotransmitter.
This is how I learned how a muscle contracts! If you'd like to see the real thing click on the link below. Wish me luck on my muscle exam!
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/matthews/myosin.html