Description: It has long, cylindrical & multinucleated cells with obvious striations.
Function: Voluntary movement, locomotion, manipulation of the environment, facial expression, etc. It also attaches to and moves bones by contracting and relaxing in response to voluntary messages from the nervous system.
Location: It is found in skeletal muscles attached to bones or occasionally to skin.
Description: It has short spindle-shaped cells with single, centrally located nuclei. Its cells are arranged closely to form sheets, with no presence of striations.
Function: It helps with digestion and nutrient collection. It propels substances or objects (foodstuff, urine, etc.) along internal passageways; involuntary control.
Location: It is mainly found in the walls of hollow internal organs (such as the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, bronchi, uterus, urethra, bladder & blood vessels, among other portions of the body).
Skeletal Muscle Tissue
Description: It has long, cylindrical & multinucleated cells with obvious striations.
Function: Voluntary movement, locomotion, manipulation of the environment, facial expression, etc. It also attaches to and moves bones by contracting and relaxing in response to voluntary messages from the nervous system.
Location: It is found in skeletal muscles attached to bones or occasionally to skin.
Cardiac Muscle Tissue
Description: It has short, branching, striated, generally uninucleated cells that interdigitate at specialized junctions (intercalated discs).
Function: It propels blood into the circulation as it contracts. It also keeps your heart pumping through involuntary movements.
Location: It is found in the walls of the heart.
Smooth Muscle Tissue
Description: It has short spindle-shaped cells with single, centrally located nuclei. Its cells are arranged closely to form sheets, with no presence of striations.
Function: It helps with digestion and nutrient collection. It propels substances or objects (foodstuff, urine, etc.) along internal passageways; involuntary control.
Location: It is mainly found in the walls of hollow internal organs (such as the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, bronchi, uterus, urethra, bladder & blood vessels, among other portions of the body).