Muscle tissue is made up of cells with the unique capacity to shorten or contract in order to cause bodily components to move. The tissue is densely packed with cells and has a good supply of blood vessels.

Skeletal muscle – Skeletal muscle is one of the human body's three major muscle tissues. Thousands of muscle fibers are bound together by connective tissue sheaths in each skeletal muscle.

Cardiac muscle – Cardiac muscle (also known as heart muscle or myocardium) is one of three forms of muscle tissue found in vertebrates. The other two are skeletal and smooth muscle. It is an involuntary, striated muscle that makes up the majority of the heart's wall tissue.

Smooth muscle – Smooth muscle is a non-striated, involuntary muscle that lacks sarcomeres and thus no striations. Smooth muscle is classified into two types: single-unit and multiunit. The entire bundle or sheet of smooth muscle cells contracts as a syncytium within single-unit muscle.