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What type of muscles line the bladder to allow for contractions?
smooth muscle
Food moves along the digestive tract as the result of contractions of what?
smooth muscles.
Condition which smooth muscles contractions reduce the size of air passageways in the lungs?
Asthma
Peristalsis is example of what type of muscle?
Peristalsis is the contraction of the digestive muscles. Peristalsis is the contractions that occur in the smooth muscles of the body.
What are contract muscles?
Smooth Muscle contractions are regulated by calcium ions. The smooth muscle differs from skeletal muscle in that its contracts from all sides.
What does acetycholine do to muscles?
Acetylcholine acts to excite skeletal muscles, allowing for the muscle to contract. It also serves to allow contractions in the smooth muscles, while slowing down the cardiac muscles
What term describes a series a wavelike contractions of the smooth muscles in a single direction?
The wavelike contractions of the smooth muscle in the gastrointestinal system are called peristalsis. The purpose of peristalsis is to push boluses of food along the gastrointestinal tract. This is achieved by the waves of contractions in the smooth muscle followed by relaxation of the muscles, pushing the bolus (ball of food) a bit further along the digestive tract with each contraction. These contractions move food or chyme through the esophagus, and intestines. The same contractions also move urine down the ureter to the bladder.
Uncontrolled muscle contractions the same as skeletal muscle contractions?
Uhh, no uncontrolled muscle contraction occurs in smooth and cardiac muscles... there are many differences between these two types of muscles; controlled and uncontrolled muscle contraction.....
What property of smooth and cardiac muscles allows them to initiate their own contractions?
The property of automaticity allows smooth and cardiac muscles to spontaneously initiate their own contractions without needing an external stimulus. This is due to the presence of pacemaker cells in these muscle tissues that can generate action potentials independently.
What are smooth muscle contractions?
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What type of muscle undergoes peristalsis?
Peristalsis involves circular smooth muscles and longitudinal smooth muscles in the effort to produce waves of contractions in a tube. This process is used in digestion to move the food (bolus) through the esophagus and the chyme (partially digested food) through the intestines.
What type of muscles are smooth muscles?
smooth muscles are involuntarily used muscles. these are present in the digestive system that moves and processes food. this is opposed to striped muscles that are voluntarily moved e.g. biceps; and cardic muscle that is present in the heart.
