Category
page 1Muscle tissue
muscle
Muscle is a specialised soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissues. There are three types of muscle tissues in vertebrates:- skeletal muscle tissue, cardiac muscle tissue, and smooth muscle tissue. Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to contract and relax. Muscle tissue contains special contractile proteins called actin and myosin which interact to cause movement. Among many other muscle proteins present are two regulatory proteins, troponin and tropomyosin. Muscle is formed during embryonic development, in a process known as myogenesis.
myocardium
middle layer of the heart wall, which consists of cardiac muscle
skeletal muscle
one of three major muscle types
smooth muscle tissue
involuntary non-striated muscle