Muscle Tissue Histology

Muscle Tissue

Is unique in that its cells have the ability to contract when stimulated. Muscle tissue allow for both voluntary and involuntary movement and heat generation.

What are the three types of muscle?

Skeletal muscle

Cardiac muscle

Smooth muscle

Skeletal muscle

Attaches to bone to skin

Cells are long striated cylindrical cells and multinucleate

Function- voluntary movement of skeletal muscle

Cardiac Muscle

Found in the wall of the heart

Cells are short, branched, striated, and uni or binucleate.

Smooth muscle

Found in the walls of most visceral.

Cells are short with a fusiform shape, lack striations, and are uninucleate.

Function- Involuntary movement such as peristalsis or an organ of vasoconstriction of a blood vessel.