Muscle Tissue Types

Skeletal
Attached to bones
Nuclei multiple and peripherally located
Striated, Voluntary and involuntary (reflexes)
Smooth
Walls of hollow organs, blood vessels, eye, glands, skin
Single nucleus centrally located
Not striated, involuntary, gap junctions in visceral smoothCardiac
Heart
Single nucleus centrally located
Striations, involuntary, intercalated disksMuscle fibers or cells
Develop from myoblasts
Numbers remain constant

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