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The myofibres cause skeletal and cardiac muscles to appear striated because they are cyndrical and long, extending across the entire surface of the muscle.
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Why does skeletal muscle appear striated when viewed through a microscope?
Skeletal and cardiac.
How does cardiac muscle resembles skeletal muscle?
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Is Heart made up of striated or non striated muscles?
Heart muscle is striated but not in the same way that skeletal muscle is. Cardiac muscle is a type of involuntary striated muscle found only in the walls of the heart.Cardiac and skeletal muscle are similar in that both appear to be striated in that they contain sarcomeres. In striated muscle, such as skeletal and cardiac muscle, the actin and myosin filaments each have a specific and constant length on the order of a few micrometers, far less than the length of the elongated muscle cell (a few millimeters in the case of human skeletal muscle cells).The filaments are organized into repeated subunits along the length. These subunits are called sarcomeres. The sarcomeres are what give skeletal and cardiac muscles their striated appearance of narrow dark and light bands, because of the parallel arrangement of the actin and myosin filaments.However, cardiac muscle has unique features relative to skeletal muscle. For one, the myocytes are much shorter and are narrower than the skeletal muscle cells, being about 0.1 millimeters long and 0.02 millimeters wide .Furthermore, while skeletal muscles are arranged in regular, parallel bundles, cardiac muscle connects at branching, irregular angles.Anatomically, the muscle fibers are typically branched like a tree branch. In addition, cardiac muscle fibers connect to other cardiac muscle fibers through intercalcated discs and form the appearance of a syncytium (continuous cellular material).These intercalcated discs, which appear as irregularly-spaced dark bands between myocytes, are a unique and prominent feature of cardiac muscle .
What are the components of the striations in striated and cardiac muscles?
Yes, they are. While skeletal muscles are arranged in regular, parallel bundles, cardiac muscle connects at branching, irregular angles. Anatomically, the muscle fibers are typically branched like a tree branch. In addition, cardiac muscle fibers connect to other cardiac muscle fibers through intercalcated discs and form the appearance of a syncytium (continuous cellular material). These intercalcated discs, which appear as irregularly-spaced dark bands between myocytes (muscle cells), are a unique feature of cardiac muscle .
Three types of muscle and give an example for them?
Cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscles.the three types of muscle in the body: cardiac (heart), skeletal (biceps, quadriceps etc.), and smooth muscle (found in the intestinal tract such as stomach and colon).
Why Skeletal muscle cells appear striated in the light microscope?
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What are the muscles that are striped and used to move bones?
The muscles that appear striped in microscope images are called skeletal muscles. All skeletal muscles are attached to bones of the body.
Compare and contrast between skeletal muscles and smooth muscles?
Skeletal muscles look like long muscle fibers with a nuclei in each one, looks striated or striped. Compared to a smooth muscle that looks like sheets of thin cells each have a nucleus as well but looks smooth.
What type of muscle is the heart formed from?
The heart is made of smooth and cardiac muscle
What is the involunrary in the human body?
Involuntary muscles are either nonstriated or striated. They are found in the walls of hollow organs, in your eyes and around your hair follicles. Cardiac or heart muscle cells appear striated under a microscope because of the large number of contractile proteins in the cells. Smooth muscles are involuntary because they contract through stimulation from your nervous system, without you actively controlling their movement. Hope it answers your question :-)
What are the tree kinds of muscle tissues?
The 3 types of muscle tissue are cardiac, smooth, and skeletal.Cardiac muscle cells are located in the walls of the heart, appear striated, and are under involuntary control.Smooth muscle fibers are located in walls of hollow visceral organs, except the heart, appear spindle-shaped, and are also under involuntary control.Skeletal muscle fibers occur in muscles which are attached to the skeleton. They are striated in appearance and are under voluntary control.
What is muscle tissue?
Muscle tissue accounts for nearly one-half of the total body weight and consists of three distinct subtypes: • striated (skeletal) muscle • smooth (visceral) muscle, and • cardiac muscle Each type of muscle cell is designed to perform one basic function. Striated muscle is attached to bones that move the skeleton. Smooth muscle is located in the walls of hollow internal structures, such as the intestines and blood vessels, allowing such organs to expand and contract. Cardiac muscle occurs only in the heart, where it forms the walls and enables the heart to pump blood. When viewed under the light microscope, striated muscle cells appear long and thread-like with alternating light and dark cross strips called striations. In contrast, smooth muscle has no striations, Cardiac muscle cells, each of which has a nucleus, are slightly striated. Each cardiac muscle cell tends to divide into a "y" or "x" shape, so that it has more than two ends and joins more than two other cells, i.e., it intercalates. The ends of one cardiac muscle cell are separated from adjoining cells by a band called an intercalated disk. Unlike skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle are controlled involuntarily, i.e., an individual cannot stop or start the muscle action. highly cellular and well vascularized
