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`EXPERIMENT # 3

EXAMINATION OF HUMAN MUSCULAR TISSUE SLIDE

Object:To examine the slides of human muscular tissues.

Requirements:Microscope, slides, histopencil.

Theory:

Muscle

Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals. Muscle cells contain protein filaments of actin and
myosin that slide past one another, producing a contraction that changes both the length and
the shape of the cell. Muscles function to produce force and motion. They are primarily
responsible for maintaining and changing posture, locomotion, as well as movement of internal
organs, such as the contraction of the heart and the movement of food through the digestive
system via peristalsis.

Muscle tissue

Muscle tissue is a soft tissue that composes muscles in animal bodies, and gives rise to muscles'
ability to contract. This is opposed to other components or tissues in muscle such as tendons or
perimysium. It is formed during embryonic development through a process known as
myogenesis.

Functions of muscles in our bodies include:

 support and movement

 propulsion of blood through vessels

 movement of food or body secretions through tracts

 thermoregulation

Muscle tissue can be described as being one of three different types:

 skeletal

 cardiac

 smooth
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Skeletal and cardiac muscles are classified as striated types while smooth is a non-striated type.
The term "striated" describes the repeating dark and light bands visible in longitudinal views of
cardiac and skeletal muscle types. These bands are important in the identification of skeletal
and cardiac muscle in longitudinal sections. cardiac and skeletal are striated types!

 Skeletal-voluntary muscles attached to skeletal elements and cartilage.

 Cardiac-involuntary muscles making up the myocardium of the heart.

 Smooth-involuntary muscles in the walls of hollow organs, blood vessels, and all other body
locales where muscles perform work.

 Skeletal muscle,Skeletal muscle is one of three major muscle types, the others being cardiac
muscle and smooth muscle. It is a form of striated muscle tissue which is under the
voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. Most skeletal muscles are attached to bones
by bundles of collagen fibers known as tendons.Skeletal muscles move the body. Skeletal
muscle contractions pull on tendons, which are attached to bones. If contraction of the
muscle causes the muscle to shorten, the bone and, thus, the body part will move.
 Smooth muscle,neither striated in structure nor under voluntary control, is found within
the walls of organs and structures such as
the esophagus, stomach, intestines, bronchi, uterus, urethra, bladder, blood vessels, and
the arrector pili in the skin (in which it controls erection of body hair).

In vertebrates, there is a third muscle tissue recognized:

 Cardiac muscle (myocardium), found only in the heart, is a striated muscle similar in

structure to skeletal muscle but not subject to voluntary control.
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OBSERVATIONS:

SLIDES POINTS OF IDENTIFICATION

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Skeletal muscle tissue

Cardiac muscle tissue

Smooth muscle tissues

RESULT:
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