Types of muscles

Striated muscles location

Limbs

Striated structure

Cylindrical, unbranched and multinucleated

What is multinucleated called as

Syncytium

What’s present in periphery

Nucleus and sarcoplasm

Are striations present?

Yes

Striated muscle aka?

Voluntary or skeletal muscle

Smooth muscle location

Iris, urinary bladder, urinogenital tract

Special location of smooth muscle

Erector Pilli muscle of dermis

Causes goosebumps

Snooth muscle aka

Involuntary, non striated, visceral muscle

Striated muscle wrt sarcoplasmic reticulum

Well developed with stored calcium

Smooth muscle wrt sarcoplasmic reticulum

Its not well developed so the muscle depends on ECF

Smooth muscle characteristics

Spindle shaped, unbranched and uninucleated

Striations in smooth muscle

Absent

Cardiac muscle feature

Prescence of intercalated disc

Role of intercalated disc

Speed up impulse transmission

Location of cardiac muscle

In heart

Characteristics of skeletal muscle

Cylindrical, branched, uninucleated

Are striations present in cardiac muscle?

Yes but its involuntary