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Cardiac muscle contracts and relaxes automatically without you having to think about it. When you take exercise your heart beats faster and with a bigger volume. This increase in cardiac output (how fast the blood is pumped around your body) is produced by a hormone called adrenaline. The vagus nerve can make the heart go slower; this happens when you are sitting or lying down.

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What are the key differences between skeletal and cardiac muscle in terms of their structure and function?

Skeletal muscles are attached to bones and help with movement, while cardiac muscles are found in the heart and help pump blood. Structurally, skeletal muscles have long, cylindrical fibers with multiple nuclei, while cardiac muscles have branching fibers with a single nucleus. Functionally, skeletal muscles are under voluntary control, while cardiac muscles contract involuntarily.


What are tissues that contract or relax to create movement?

Muscles are tissues that contract or relax to create movement in the body. They work by contracting to shorten and generate force, allowing the body to move and perform various functions. Smooth muscles, cardiac muscles, and skeletal muscles are the three types of muscle tissues in the human body.


Were is the cardiac muscle found?

Cardiac muscle is found exclusively in the heart. It is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body and is highly specialized for this function, with unique properties that allow it to contract rhythmically and continuously.


What happens to muscles when they contract?

When muscles contract, they shorten and generate force, allowing movement to occur. This process is controlled by the nervous system and involves the sliding of protein filaments within the muscle fibers.


Which of these are tissues that can relax and contract?

Smooth muscle tissues can relax and contract. Additionally, cardiac muscle tissues also have the ability to relax and contract. Skeletal muscle tissues are another type that can relax and contract voluntarily.

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What happens if cardiac muscles do not contract?

You would get a heart attack otherwise known as a cardiac arrest.


Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?

Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.


How is cardiac muscles similar to smooth muscles?

they both contract and relax to cause movement and both are uninucleated.


What happens to your muscles when you are nervous?

They contract


What is the function of a cardiac cell?

Cardiac cells are muscle cells that make up the heart (cardiac tissues). When the muscles contract, they force blood out of the ventricles of the heart.


Which type of muscles causes the heart to contract and relax?

auto-rhythmic cardiac muscle


Muscles found only in the walls of your heart?

Cardiac muscles are found only in the walls of the heart. They are specialized muscles that contract and relax to pump blood throughout the body, and they are involuntary, meaning we cannot control their contraction.


What happens during isokinetic exercise Muscles contract at a constant rate. Muscles contract and relax to move a joint. Muscles do not contract at all. Muscles contract with very little body movement.?

Muscles contract and relax to move a joint. ... Muscles contract at a constant rate. Muscles contract and relax to move a joint.


The heart is made up of cardiac muscles what happend when these muscles contract?

Yes, the heart is made of muscles, however, these muscles do not all contract at one time. They contract in synchrony and when they contract they squeeze the chamber they surround such are the atria or ventricle and blood is pushed out of the chamber.


What happens if the papillary muscles fail to contract?

If the papillary muscles fail to contract the valves will prolapse. The papillary muscles are located in the ventricles and contract to prevent prolapse.


What happens when the rib muscles contract?

you exhale (:


What type of muscles are the cardiac muscles?

cardiac muscles