Muscle Tissue Flashcards

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The cells of muscle tissue:

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Muscle fibers, elongated fibrous shape

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Three types of Muscle Tissue:

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Skeletal muscle
Cardiac muscle
Smooth muscle

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All muscle fiber cells are excitable:

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Excitable- excitable membranes recieve/respond to stimuli from nerves/hormones

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All muscle fiber cells are Contractible:

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Muscle fibers contain conttactile proteins that allow them to change length that generate force that creates movement

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All muscle fibers are elastic:

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Muscle fibets can return to their original length after contracting

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Skeletal Muscles:

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Tendious attachments to bone or soft tissue and cross 1 joint

Voluntary movements by pulling on a bone to initiate action at a joint

Has STRIATIONS and several nuclei in each cell

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Cardiac Muscle:

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Located ONLY in the wall of the hear wall

Involuntary contractions of the heart chambers(heart beat)

Less organized strations
Cnetrally located nuclei
Cells only have 1 nucleus

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Smooth Muscle:

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Located in the walls of internal organs
Involunatry movement of functions of organs

Lack striations
1 centrallt located nucleus
Cells overlap like bricks

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