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What are the difference between smooth muscles and cardiac muscles?
Cardiac muscle is only found in the heart. Its fibers are longer than they are wide, and they are striated, like skeletal muscle fibers. Smooth muscle is found in the walls of internal organs, such as the organs of the digestive tract, blood vessels, and others. It consists of mononucleate fibers with tapered edges.
What is similar about cardiac and smooth muscle?
The cardiac muscle cell has one central nucleus, like smooth muscle, but it also is striated, like skeletal muscle. The cardiac muscle cell is rectangular in shape. The contraction of cardiac muscle is involuntary, strong, and rhythmical.
What does all muscle tissue have in common?
All muscle cells share several properties: contractility, excitability, extensibility, and elasticity: Contractility is the ability of muscle cells to forcefully shorten.
What’s the difference between cardiac muscle and smooth muscle?
Skeletal Muscles: Skeletal muscles comprise very long, cylindrical, multinucleated cells. Smooth Muscles: Smooth muscles comprise single, tapering, single nucleated cells. Cardiac Muscles: Cardiac muscle cells are striated with many myofibrils in orderly arrangements.
How does voluntary muscle differ from skeletal muscle?
It has a greater number of mitochondria than skeletal muscle due to the need for continual contractions (function: transport of blood). Voluntary muscle (skeletal muscle) can be controlled voluntarily to bring about movement of the skeleton (function).
How are cardiac muscles controlled in the body?
Cardiac muscles are involuntarily controlled and their main function is to pump blood through the heart. These muscles cannot be fatigued because they their cells have the highest amount of mitochondria nuclei in the body. What is the difference between skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles?
Which is an example of a smooth muscle?
The uterus (myometrium), an example of a smooth muscle Smooth muscles are found along the walls of hollow internal organs such as the esophagus. They are not voluntarily controlled or striated like the skeletal muscles. Their cells have centrally located nuclei and these muscles are small and tapered.