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Muscle Tissue
Types and Characteristics
Producing Body Movement | Walking, nodding head, etc |
Stabilizing Body Positions | Standing, sitting, and keeping your head up |
Regulating Organ Volume | Helps body use hollow organs as temp storage |
Moving Substances within Body | Blood through veins, etc |
Producing Heat | shivering |
Excitability | Ability to respond to stimuli and produce action potentials |
Contractility | Ability to contract or shorten |
Extensibility | Ability to stretch |
Elasticity | Ability to return to original shape after stretching |
Smooth – eye dilation Stomach waves | Involuntary Non-striated Best ability to regenerate of muscle tissue, but still limited compared to skin |
Skeletal | Voluntary Striated Limited ability to regenerate |
Cardiac | Involuntary Striated Cannot regenerate at all |
Gross Anatomy of a Muscle | Superficial fascia, Deep fascia, Epimysium, Fascicle, Perimysium, Endomysium, Fiber, tendon |