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What is a vessel with a thick layer of smooth muscle and elastic fibers that allow for expansion?
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An artery is a vessel with a thick medial layer, consisting of smooth muscle to allow for constriction or dilation in order to control blood flow through the vessel.
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What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscle?
Arterial walls are more muscular than the walls of veins. This muscle is smooth involuntary muscle.
What type of muscle fibers are there?
You have three types of muscle fibers. 1) Skeletal muscle fibers. 2) Cardiac muscle fibers. 3) Smooth muscle fibers.
What types of fibers are there?
You have three types of muscle fibers. 1) Skeletal muscle fibers. 2) Cardiac muscle fibers. 3) Smooth muscle fibers.
What types of muscle are there?
You have three types of muscle fibers. 1) Skeletal muscle fibers. 2) Cardiac muscle fibers. 3) Smooth muscle fibers.
Smooth muscle fibers are the shortest of all muscle cell types?
No. Cardiac muscle fibers.
True or false smooth muscle fibers are located in small skeletal muscles?
smooth muscle fibers are located in small skeletal muscle
Do Skeletal muscle fibers tend to be shorter than smooth muscle fibers?
False
Do skeletal muscle fibers contain sarcomeres whereas smooth muscle fibers do not?
true
How is the structure of arterioles different from that of arteries?
The wall of the arterioles contain less elastic fibers but more smooth muscle cells than that of the aorta and arteries.
Is skeletal muscle made of muscle fibers?
Basically, yes. All muscle (skeletal, cardiac and smooth) are made of muscle fibers.
What is the general shape of smooth muscle cells and plant fibers?
smooth muscle cells are spindle shaped
What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscles?
the tunica media is made of smooth muscles and elastic fibers.
