Comparative cytophys-iology of striated muscle with special reference to the role of the endoplasmic reticulum
Comparative cytophys-iology of striated muscle with special reference to the role of the endoplasmic reticulum
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10.1083/jcb.2.4.143
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1956-01-01
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VALLEJO-FREIRE, ARISTIDES
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EDWARDS, GEORGE A.;RUSKA, HELMUT;VALLEJO-FREIRE, ARISTIDES
Striated muscles of specialized physiology from Crustacea to man have been studied by means of the electron microscope. It was found that the structure and distribution of the components of striated muscle cells vary with the species and with the specialization of muscle fiber function. There appear to be two, easily distinguishable, general categories of striated muscle structure. (A) High frequency muscles, represented by flight muscle of higher insects and hummingbird and cicada tympanal muscle, are characterized by widely spaced, non-branching fibrils of large diameter and short period, little endoplasmic reticulum, and large quantities of large mitochondria. This structure is correlated with heavy tracheolization (insects) or vascularization (birds), high oxidative activity, and dark color as compared with other muscles of the same species. (B) Low frequency muscles are characterized, in general, by high fibril-sarco-plasm ratio, relatively long period, few mitochondria increasing with activity and decreasing with absolute power of the fiber. Oxidative capacity and color are proportional to the quantity of mitochondria. These fibers are further differentiated into: (1) fibrillar arrangement of contractile material which permits a regular pattern of interfibrillar and segmental reticulum; and (2) a fibrillar arrangement of contractile material leading to an unsystematic distribution of reticulum. The endoplasmic reticulum appears as a complex coordination system in the muscle fiber. Peripherally it links the Z and M lines of the fibrils to the sarcolemma and in the fibrillar fibers it links the Z bands between the fibrils forming the "Grundmembran" of earlier authors. By longitudinal linkage, it connects with the digitated sarcolemma at the fiber extremity into which the tendon fibrils are spliced. The extent of its development and its position have a definite relationship to the degree and site of fiber shortening. At present the reticulum is the only structure that one can consider to be an internal conducting system. It may distribute the excitation transversely from fibril to fibril, and lengthwise saltatorily to the symmetry centers of the sarcomeres. The nucleus is the mediating element between the cytoplasmic phases within and without the tubular system of the endoplasmic reticulum. A possible mechanism which correlates nucleus, adenylic acid system, and ion exchange with the reticulum and initiation of contraction is postulated. || ABSTRACT AUTHORS: J. A. Edwards