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No. The heart muscle contracts in sections, first the top (atrium) then the bottom (ventricle). But when it is working properly, the heart muscle fibers contract together in large groups.

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Does cardiac muscle and heart have the same relationship?

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


What kind of muscle makes your heart?

You call it as cardiac muscles. The muscle fibers contract rhythmically. The muscle fibers are attached to each other end to end. This facilitates the conduction of the impulse. The muscle fiber can be stimulated to give you contraction of the the same.


How are your skeletal smooth and cardiac muscles the same?

All three types of muscles are composed of muscle fibers that contract in response to nerve signals. They are all involved in movement and support the body's structure. Additionally, they each contain proteins called actin and myosin that are responsible for muscle contraction.


Why is it important that the muscle cells of the left ventricle contract at the same time?

It is important for the muscle cells of the left ventricle to contract at the same time to ensure effective and coordinated pumping of blood into the body. Synchronous contraction allows for efficient ejection of blood and optimal cardiac function, preventing issues like reduced cardiac output and inefficient circulation.


How are skeletal and cardiac muscle the same?

They are both striated.


Who has more nuclei per cell skeletal muscle or cardiac muscle?

which has more nuclei per cell skeletal muscle or cardiac muscle? I guess that they both have the same number of nuclei.


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 .


Do skeletal muscle fibers contain sarcomeres whereas smooth muscle fibers do not?

Yes, skeletal muscle fibers contain sarcomeres, which are the repeating units responsible for muscle contractions. In contrast, smooth muscle fibers do not have sarcomeres in the same organized structure but still have contractile proteins.


Is a muscle cell a fiber?

Yes, biologists often refer to skeletal muscle cells as fibers, although they aren't the same as plant fibers.


How can smooth muscle contract if it has no striation or sacromeres?

The proteins that form the visible striations in skeletal and cardiac muscle are not organized the same way in smooth muscle. It contacts in a similar way but much more slowly and in waves. Some of the proteins are different ones but still produce movement.


Cells are organized into blank such as muscle neural and cardiac?

Cells that are the same form tissues. Muscle cells form muscle tissue.


What is the primary role of muscle spindles?

the striated portions of the intrafusal fiber contract to keep the spindle taut at different muscle lengths. If the whole muscle is stretched, the muscle spindle is also stretched, triggering sensory nerve impulses on its nerve fiber. These sensory fibers synapse in the spinal chord with lower motor neurons leading back to the same muscle. Impulses triggered by stretch of the muscle spindle contract the skeletal muscle.