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ANT 311
Chapter 9: Muscular System: Histology
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 2
06/05/2009

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Skeletal muscle tissue
Definition

-Attached mainly to bones, striated, voluntary

-Cells are long and cylinder like and have more than one nucleus

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Cardiac muscle tissue
Definition

-Found in the heart, involuntary

-Cells are shorter in length and are branched unlike skeletal muscle fibers

-Cells have many gap junctions

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Smooth muscle tissue
Definition

-Located in the walls of hollow organs and in skin, nonstriated, involuntary

-Very different from other muscle tissues

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