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Muscle tissue Excitable, contractable, extensive, elastic


Excitable Responsiveness, ability to receive/respond to stimuli


Contractible Ability to shorted when stimulated


Extensible Ability to be stretched or extended when relaxed


Elastic Ability to recoil after being stretched


Types of muscle tissue Skeletal, cardiac, smooth


Skeletal muscle Voluntary, striated, multi nucleated, attached to bones, orderly


Cardiac muscle Heart, striated, branched, involuntary


Smooth muscle Visceral, involuntary, not striated, one nucleus


Neural regulation Smooth and skeletal muscles.
Action potential generated, calcium ions released into sarcoplasm, muscle
contracts


Electrical properties of Smooth muscle Spontaneous diffusion of Na and Ca ions causes depolarization, creates slow
waves between cells.
Not all or none


Stretching of smooth muscle can cause Delays of actions such as storage of food during digestion


Does skeletal or smooth muscle stretch more? Smooth


Hyperplasia Growth of more cells (number increases, not size). Smooth muscle


Sphincters Circular muscle found in digestive system, constricts body passages and relaxes
as required


Peristalis Smooth muscle, contraction along organs (rectum, urinary bladder, uterus)


Each skeletal muscle Individual organ. Contain one nerve, one artery, one+ veins


Smooth muscle contraction Need nerve to provide the stimulus. Not on own.


Connective tissue coverings (skeletal muscle) Endomysium, perimysium, epimysium. Become tendons/aponeurosis

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