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Cardiac muscle is made of special myocytes that each beat on their own. They do not need nerve stimulation like your leg or arm muscles do. This is called self pacing. If you would place several muscle cells in a dish with normal saline fluid, then each would contract. If one touched the other, one would cause the other to contract with it. This is called pacing. If more and more would touch, more would contract together. The heart has two areas which are called pacemakers. This keeps the muscle cells beating together. One causes the heart to beat at a faster rate. If this should fail, the second one will take over as a back up. But it beats at a slower rate.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoThe name for heart is cardiac. The type of muscle that makes up the heart is smooth muscle. By comparison, your legs use striated muscles.
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Give the name of the muscle that makes up the heart Is the heart mostly made muscle or empty space?
type of muscle that makes up the heart
What type of mucsle makes up the heart?
cardiac muscle
What type of tissue makes up the nonconducting skeleton of the heart?
Muscle tissue.
What is the muscle called that makes up your heart muscle?
Cardiac Muscle
What makes up the bulk of the cardiac muscle?
Cardiac muscle makes up the bulk of the heart. That tissue is made of cardiomyocytes or muscle cells.
What is the special muscle that makes up the heart?
kidney
Muscle tissue that makes up the heart?
Myocardium.
Where is the cardiac muscle tissue located in the body?
The cardiac muscle is the type of muscle that the heart is made up of.
Which type of muscle allows the heart to pump blood within the cardiovascular system?
The heart is made up of cardiac muscle, which is a type of striated muscle.
Which type of muscle make up the heart?
Cardiac Muscle tissue
Kind of muscle that makes up the walls of the heart?
cardiac muscle! Oh and if you say the heart doesn't have a muscle U R STUPID! It has a muscle
What type of muscle tissue makes up wall of heart?
Cardiac muscle tissue forms the walls of the heart.
