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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 .


What is the differences between commissures association fibers and projection fibers?

Association fibers connect different portions of cerebral hemisphere allowing cerebral cortex to function as a integrated whole whereas projection fibers connect cerebral hemispheres to other portions of brain n spinal cord


Fibers that connect the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum would be called projection fibers?

Projection fibers are long nerve fibers that connect the cerebral cortex to lower regions of the brain, such as the cerebellum. They are responsible for transmitting information between these two brain regions.


Where do cardiac muscle fibers remain between cardiac cycles with no detectable electrical changes?

During this period, cardiac muscle fibers are in a resting state called diastole. They remain relaxed and do not contract, allowing the heart chambers to fill with blood. This phase is vital for the heart to rest and prepare for the next contraction during systole.


Which fibers spread the electrical signal throughout the ventricular walls?

Purkinje cells are specialized cardiac cells, whose purpose it is to spread the electrical signal from the atrioventricular (AV) node down through the right and left ventricles.

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What is cardiac muscle fibers?

Your cardiac muscle is your heart and this is a muscle and it holds itself together with its fibers. Hope that answers it for you :)


Which type of muscle tissue is autorhythmic?

cardiac muscle


What tissue is your heart composed of?

Cardiac Muscle tissue =)


Are cardiac muscle fibers involuntary?

no


What carries cardiac impulses to the myocardium?

Cardiac impulses are carried to the myocardium via specialized muscle cells called Purkinje fibers. These fibers are part of the cardiac conduction system and help to transmit electrical signals rapidly and efficiently throughout the heart muscle.


Fibers of the cardiac conduction system are what kind of specalized tissue?

Muscle ( cardiac Muscle)


What is the name of the fibers that carry cardiac impulses from the interventricular septum into the myocardium?

Purkinje 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.


Smooth muscle fibers are the shortest of all muscle cell types?

No. Cardiac muscle fibers.


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.


Does cardiac muscle and heart have the same relationship?

The heart is composed of cardiac muscle fibers. It is the same thing.


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.