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| type of tissue, found in the walls of internal organs and blood vessles |
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| makes up the heart. The fibers are interconnected and form a network that helps the heart and is adapted to generate and conduct electrical impulses for rhythmic contraction |
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| type that is attached to and moves bones. Majority of muscles in the body are skeletal. |
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| contracts under conscious control |
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| composed of even smaller protein filaments that can be either thick of thin |
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| sections of myofibril. Functional units of muscle |
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| states that when signaled, the actin filaments, within each sarcomere slide toward one another, shortening the sarcomeres in a fiber causing the muslce to contract |
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