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Involuntary muscle is controlled by which organ?

All muscle types are controlled by the nervous system (CNS and/or the PNS).


What type of muscle tissue you would find in toes?

Straighted


What muscles are straighted?

There are three types of muscle tissue: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Smooth muscle lines the walls of hollow organs and are involuntary. Skeletal muscles are attached to the skeleton and its main function is voluntary movement. Cardiac muscle is found only in the heart. Both skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue is striated, smooth is not.


Can you control your involuntary organ?

You cannot control your involuntary organ. You can control your voluntary organ.


What is another name for involuntary muscles?

It is called involuntary muscle or smooth muscle.


Is the Golgi tendon tendon organ voluntary or involuntary?

To answer your question in brief, the Golgi tendon organ is an involuntary mechanism that serves to maintain muscle tension and prevent injury. They are groups of fibres that wrap around the tendon, and have type Ib receptors that relay activity back to your brain. Upon activation, they increase their activity, which forces the shut down of the muscle contraction in order to prevent tearing of the muscle from excessive activation.


Is your cadiac muscle voluntary or involuntary?

Involuntary,as is the smooth muscle.


Is the heart involuntary or voluntary?

the heart is and involuntary muscle because you cannot contract the muscle.


Types of muscle are involuntary?

Of the three types of muscle, the two that are involuntary are cardiac muscle and smooth muscle.


Is the heart an involuntary muscle?

yes is a involuntary muscle .so. is true.


What is the difference between involuntary muscle and cardiac muscle?

Voluntary (or skeletal) muscle cells, involuntary (or smooth) muscle cells, and cardiac (or heart) muscle cells, all have thick and thin filaments (myosin and actin, respectively), for their sliding filament mechanism, enabling movements However, since their funscions are different, there are significiant differences in their structures: shapes, sizes, proportion of filaments, their response to stimulus, and the kind of stimulus itself, for example.


Can you provide an example of an involuntary muscle and explain its function?

An example of an involuntary muscle is the smooth muscle found in the walls of internal organs like the stomach and intestines. These muscles work automatically without conscious control to help move food through the digestive system and regulate organ functions.