Muscle tissue is a specialized tissue found in animals that acts by contracting and applying forces to various sections of the body. Muscle tissue is present in humans as well.

Most of your body’s muscles are made up of skeletal muscles (sometimes referred to as voluntary muscles). Tendons and skin connect skeletal muscles to bones. Assistance with bodily movements is their responsibility. Skeletal muscle is multinucleated, striated and cylindrical.

Cardiac muscle is found only in the heart and, although it is striated in the same way as skeletal muscle, it works involuntarily. It is in charge of the heart’s capacity to pump blood efficiently. Cardiac muscle has branching fibers, striations, and intercalated disks.

When you don’t move your body, your muscles are called smooth muscles. They don’t have sarcomers, so they don’t have stripes. Body parts that have smooth muscle, such as hollow organs and tubes like blood vessels and airways, as well as other parts of the body like the inside of your eye all have this type of muscle.