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There are three types of muscle tissue: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.
Skeletal muscle tissue is a voluntary type of muscle tissue that is used in the contraction of skeletal parts. It is striated (alternating with light and dark bands, called striations) and is attached to bones. A single skeletal muscle fiber is very long and has many nuclei, located at the periphery of the cell. Individual muscle fibers are parallel to each other.
Smooth muscle tissue is found in the walls of hollow internal organs and blood vessels. It is involuntary, nonstriated, and it's muscle fibers are small, thickest in the middle, and tapered at each end, containing single, centrally located nuclei. Smooth muscle tissue helps to narrow the lumen of blood vessels, physically break down and move food along the GIT as well as move fluids through the body and eliminate wastes.
Cardiac muscle tissue is found only in the walls of the heart and it is striated but also involuntary. It's muscle fibers are branched, and usually have only one centrally located nucleus. cardiac muscle tissue has intercalated discs that transverse thickening of the plasma membrane attached to the muscle fibers from end-to-end. It contains cell junctions that strengthen cardiac muscle and holds the fibers together during its vigorous contractions and cell junctions known as gap junctions that also provide a quick route for conduction of electrical impulses.
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Is the skeletal muscle a smooth muscle?
no skeletal muscles are voluntary smooth muscles are not
What are the 3 subtypes of muscle tissue?
Striated,smooth,and skelital cardiac, skeletal, and smooth
Which muscle tissue has several nuclei per cell?
Smooth muscle tissue
Which of these cells are likely to have multiple nuclei skeletal muscle cardiac muscle smooth muscle or neuron?
skeletal smooth muscle neuron
How is cardiac muscle similar both muscle smooth and skeletal muscle?
Cardiac muscle tissue, like skeletal and smooth muscle tissue, can undergo hypertrophy.Unlike both smooth and skeletal muscle, cardiac muscles have cells that branch.
How cardiac muscle similar to both smooth muscle and skeletal muscle?
Cardiac muscle tissue, like skeletal and smooth muscle tissue, can undergo hypertrophy.Unlike both smooth and skeletal muscle, cardiac muscles have cells that branch.
What are some different types of muscles?
There are three muscle types, skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Skeletal and cardiac are both striated muscle, whereas smooth muscle is not.
Which muscle do you control smooth muscle or skeletal muscle?
You are in direct control of skeletal muscle.
Does the trachea have skeletal muscle?
No, it doesn't have skeletal muscle,, only smooth muscle..
Give examples of three types of muscles?
Smooth Muscle, Cardiac Muscle, and Skeletal Muscle
What kind of muscle can you consciously contro smooth muscle or skeletal muscle?
There are three types of muscles. Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscles are the only ones you can voluntarily control.
What is cardiac smooth muscle?
There is nothing really called 'cardiac smooth muscle'. Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle but it is not under your control like skeletal muscle is. It acts more like smooth muscle because of this reason. But we only use the terms smooth muscle, striated (skeletal) muscle or cardiac muscle.
