How does smooth muscle tissue look under the microscope?

Does all muscle look the same? If you were to look at skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle using a microscope, you would see differences in their structure. Types of muscle tissue. Muscle tissues differ in structure. Skeletal muscle fibres are packed into regular parallel bundles. read more

Cardiac muscle tissue, like skeletal muscle tissue, looks striated or striped. The bundles are branched, like a tree, but connected at both ends. Unlike skeletal muscle tissue, the contraction of cardiac muscle tissue is usually not under conscious control, so it is called involuntary. read more

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