Summary Basic Types of Cell Tissue: Muscle

MODULE 3: MUSCLE TISSUE
The Basic Types of Cell Tissue (Notes)
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Skeletal Muscle Pairs
INTRODUCTION
● To move bones in opposite
directions, skeletal muscles often
Muscle consist of muscle pairs that work in
● composed of long cells called opposition to one another.
muscle fibers that allow the body to ● The biceps and triceps muscles are
move voluntarily or involuntarily. examples of a muscle pair where the
● Movement of muscles is a response muscles work in opposition to each
to signals coming from nerve cells. other.

CONNECTIVE TISSUES
● is a soft tissue that makes up most
of the tissues in the muscles of the
human muscular system.

Type of muscle tissues
1. Skeletal
2. Cardiac
3. Smooth


SKELETAL Skeletal Muscle Structure
● skeletal muscle fibers are
● is muscle tissue attached to bones
individually wrapped in connective
by tendons, which are bundles of
tissue called endomysium.
collagen fibers.
● The skeletal muscle fibers are
● Contractions of skeletal muscles are
bundled together in units called
voluntary or under the conscious
muscle fascicles, surrounded by
control of the central nervous system
sheaths of connective tissue called
via the somatic nervous system.
perimysium.
● is the most common type of muscle
● Fascicles are bundled together to
tissue in the human body.
form individual skeletal muscles,
which are wrapped in connective
tissue called epimysium.