Compare and contrast in terms of structure and function the three different types of muscles found in the human body?

Answer 1

Well you only have 3 types of muscles in the human body. Cardiac, Skeletal and Smooth 1 Cardiac Muscle... with is only found in the heart. The specialized striated muscle tissue of the heart, the myocardium. Cardiac muscle is in some ways similar to skeletal and smooth muscle . For example, all three contract when a rise in calicum inside the muscle cell allows interaction between actin and myocin filaments. However, cardiac muscle has a unique structure, and differs in the way that contraction is initiated and regulated. 2.Skeletal Muscle... usually voluntary muscle made up of elongated, multinucleated, transversely striated muscle fibers, having principally bony attachments. Also called striated muscle. Skelekal muscles moves the skeleton and is responsible for all our voluntary movements, as well as for the automatic movements required, for example, to stand, to hold up our head, and to breathe. 2. Smooth Muscles... Muscle tissue that contracts without conscious control, having the form of thin layers or sheets made up of spindle-shaped, unstriated cells with single nuclei and found in the walls of the internal organs, such as the stomach, intestine, bladder, and blood vessels, EXCLUDING out side the heart. The cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and respiratory systems are composed mostly of hollow organs (tubular or sacular), which transport and/or store fluids (either liquids or gases) within the body. The walls of these organs contain smooth muscle, a type of tissue which enables them to constrict or dilate, in this way retarding or facilitating fluid movement as required. This is accomplished by the shortening or lengthening of the individual smooth muscle cells, which occurs in a co-ordinated fashion because the cells are electrically coupled by intercellular connections, known as gap junctions. Other structures in the body that contain smooth muscle include the myometrium - the muscular wall of the uterus - which is responsible for the rhythmic contractions of Labor, the piloerector muscles, which cause skin hair to stand up; and the irises, which control the diameter of the pupils.

Answer 2

Skeletal striated muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.