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Muscle Tissue
Types and Characteristics
| Producing Body Movement | Walking, nodding head, etc |
| Stabilizing Body Positions | Standing, sitting, and keeping your head up |
| Regulating Organ Volume | Helps body use hollow organs as temp storage |
| Moving Substances within Body | Blood through veins, etc |
| Producing Heat | shivering |
| Excitability | Ability to respond to stimuli and produce action potentials |
| Contractility | Ability to contract or shorten |
| Extensibility | Ability to stretch |
| Elasticity | Ability to return to original shape after stretching |
| Smooth – eye dilation Stomach waves | Involuntary Non-striated Best ability to regenerate of muscle tissue, but still limited compared to skin |
| Skeletal | Voluntary Striated Limited ability to regenerate |
| Cardiac | Involuntary Striated Cannot regenerate at all |
| Gross Anatomy of a Muscle | Superficial fascia, Deep fascia, Epimysium, Fascicle, Perimysium, Endomysium, Fiber, tendon |