muscle tissue
Body's movement material
Muscle tissue is the body's tissue specialized for contraction and movement.
The three types—skeletal, cardiac, and smooth—differ in structure and control but share the ability to shorten when stimulated.
Skeletal muscle moves bones voluntarily, cardiac muscle pumps the heart automatically, and smooth muscle lines organs and blood vessels.
- contractionReduction in size
- myosinMotor protein enabling contraction
- actinCellular contractile protein
- bodybuildingMuscle enlargement for appearance
- exerciseActivity for fitness
slow twitch · fast twitch · strength · atrophy · fascicle · myopathy · fibers · cramp · striated · bicep · ache · twitch · smooth · bulk · ripped · lean · fatigue · protein
- tissue developmentmorphogenesis, organogenesis, embryogenesis, regeneration, angiogenesis
- anatomybrain, heart, bones, liver, stomach
- animal anatomyskull, teeth, ears, eyes, nose
- biological materialsblood, plasma, serum, bone marrow, stem cells
- insect anatomyabdomen, antennae, thorax, exoskeleton, head
- biospecimensblood samples, DNA samples, saliva samples, biological samples, specimens
tissue type/composition
muscle tissuebone
Hard skeletal tissue
bone tissue · fat tissue · cartilage · fat · connective tissue
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