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    The document describes three main types of muscle cells: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells. [1] Skeletal muscle cells are long, thin fibers that do not divide and produce new fibers through satellite cells. [2] Cardiac muscle cells form the myocardium of the heart and are branching cells connected by intercalated discs that allow them to act as a unit. [3] Smooth muscle cells are spindle-shaped, can divide, lack striations, have a single nucleus, and are involuntarily controlled to constrict organs and blood vessels.

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    The document describes three main types of muscle cells: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells. [1] Skeletal muscle cells are long, thin fibers that do not divide and produce new fibers through satellite cells. [2] Cardiac muscle cells form the myocardium of the heart and are branching cells connected by intercalated discs that allow them to act as a unit. [3] Smooth muscle cells are spindle-shaped, can divide, lack striations, have a single nucleus, and are involuntarily controlled to constrict organs and blood vessels.

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    Muscle Ion Table

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    Meredith Barb
    The document describes three main types of muscle cells: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells. [1] Skeletal muscle cells are long, thin fibers that do not divide and produce new fibers through satellite cells. [2] Cardiac muscle cells form the myocardium of the heart and are branching cells connected by intercalated discs that allow them to act as a unit. [3] Smooth muscle cells are spindle-shaped, can divide, lack striations, have a single nucleus, and are involuntarily controlled to constrict organs and blood vessels.

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    CHARACTERISTIC

    SKELETAL Long, thin and cylindrical; also called muscle fibers; do NOT divide, new fibers are produced by stem cells called satellite cells- (not branched like cardiac)

    CARDIAC Cardiac muscle cells are called cardiocytes; branching cells attached at intercalated discs -also called myocardium

    SMOOTH Obviously different from skeletal and cardiacsmooth muscle cells are spindle shaped (small and tapered) and can divide

    Cells

    Striation (banded appearance) Number of Nuclei Controlled Voluntarily or Involuntarily

    Obviously striated (myosin and actin help to Striated give muscle this appearance) Multinucleate (nuclei often pushed to edge) Uni- or binucleate Voluntary (conciously controlled)

    None Uninucleate

    Involuntary Involuntary (ANS) -no innervation is needed, -does not normally contract without the except for the regulation of rate, influence of nervous stimulation contractile strength because the myocardium has inherent -mainly innervated by the Somatic Nervous contractility (SA Node System (?) pacemaker) -while it can be stimulated to contract via the ANS, it doesnt need nervous stimulation and can contract rhythmically without it meat or flesh of body attached to skeletonFound only in heart; cardiocytes spindle-shaped cells with central forming large body muscles responsible for form a branching network at nuclei arranged closely to form body movements such as walking, also intercalated discsallow sheets support joints muscle cells to act as a unit - 40% of body mass in normal adults Moves limbs or other external body parts As it contracts, the heart acts as Typically has two layers running at a pump propelling the blood intoright angles to each other; thus its the blood vessels contraction can constrict or dilate the lumen (cavity) of an organ and propel substances along predetermined pathways Heart only Smooth musclealso called visceral muscle is found mainly in the walls of hollow organs (digestive and urinary tract organs, uterus and blood vessels)

    Description

    Result of Contraction

    Location

    In skeletal muscles attached to bones or occasionally to skin

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