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Muscle + Nervous
| type | description |
|---|---|
| 3 types of Muscle Tissue | Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth |
| Skeletal Muscle function | Contract to produce movement, sustain body posture + position, maintain body temperature, store nutrients, stabilize joints |
| Skeletal Muscle location | Throughout the body, attached to bones by tendons |
| Skeletal Muscle characteristic | Voluntary, looks strippy, multi-nucleied |
| Cardiac Muscle function | Pump blood throughout the body by rhythmically contracting and relaxing, generating the force needed to circulate blood through the cardiovascular system |
| Cardiac Muscle location | Walls of the heart |
| Cardiac Muscle characteristic | Looks branched, cells are attached to other cardiac muscle cells at intercalated disks, striated, 1 nucleus per cell |
| Smooth Muscle function | Involuntarily contracting and relaxing to regulate the movement of substances within hollow organs like the stomach, intestines, bladder, blood vessels,+ airways |
| Smooth Muscle characteristics | No visible striations, 1 nucleus per cell, spindle-shaped cells, looks like stratified squamous, but no connective tissue and more plumped. |
| Nervous Tissue function | To send impulses to other area of the body, irritability, conductivity, composed of neurons and nerve support cells |
| Neuron | Transmits signals, nerve impulses |
| Glial Neuroglia | Nervous system supports cells - provide homeostatic support, protection, and defense to the nervous tissue |
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