Muscle

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Muscle
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Characteristics

• Specialized for contraction
• (actin-myosin)
• Very vascular
• Large amounts of energy
• Lots of mitochondria
• Cells are usually long and
• slender, and sometimes
• called muscle fibers

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Functions

• MOVEMENT

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Types

• Skeletal movement of bones
• striations-lined appearance (bands)
• Will not contract unless stimulated by nerves-
  voluntary control

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• 2. Smooth No striations, involuntary control

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• 3. Cardiac Striated, involuntary, greatly
  branched.

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Cardiac Muscle
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Hamstring
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Avulsion Tearing away