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No it is not. The liver is a specialized organ involved in protein production, hormone production, detoxification, metabolization of compounds, glycogen storage and digestion. Smooth muscle, on the other hand, makes up a significant portion of the gastrointestinal track. It is interesting to note that a marker for autoimmune hepatitis (a disease of the liver) is called anti-smooth muscle antibody.
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Do kidneys have any muscles tissue?
No, it`s only made out of smooth muscle.
What are examples of smooth muscles?
kidneys, stomach, intestines, bladder, the eyes, the walls of blood vessels. Smooth muscles that are sometimes called visceral muscles. They are thin muscles that look like spindles. They can be found in your skin and your blood vessels and your organs inside your body.
Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?
Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.
Are smooth muscles involuntary muscles?
yes. The smooth muscles (e.g. in the digestive tract) are involuntary.
Does the kidneys have muscle tissues?
The kidneys do not contain muscle tissue in the same way that organs like the heart or skeletal muscles do. Instead, the kidneys are primarily composed of renal tissue, including nephrons, which are responsible for filtering blood and producing urine. However, the kidneys do have smooth muscle in their walls, particularly in the ureters, which helps move urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Smooth muscles under involuntary control?
yes. Smooth muscles are another name for involuntary muscles.
Is the smooth muscle voluntary or involuntary?
Smooth muscles are involuntary, as are cardiac muscles. Only skeletal muscles are voluntary.
What muscles are unstriated?
smooth muscles.
Involuntary muscles are also called?
The muscles of the digestive system are smooth muscles.
Smooth muscles are from which family of muscles?
Involuntary muscles
Which muscles are involuntaries?
smooth muscles and cardiac muscles
What is used to move urine from the kidneys to the bladdar through the ureters?
The ureters move urine from the kidney to the bladder by something known as peristalsis. This is a wave like series of muscle contractions. The lining of smooth muscles in the ureter move the urine to the bladder.
