CARDIAC MUSCLE TISSUE

• One of the three types of muscle tissue

• Found only in walls of heart
• Like skeletal muscle, contains striations;
but cells have only one nucleus
• Cells can have many branches that join
branches of other cardiac cells
• Performs coordinated contractions

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CARDIAC MUSCLE
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CARDIAC MUSCLE
 • How does it function?
• What are heart muscles made of?
• How Does the Physiolog of
Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Differ?

Source: https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/02/24/video-how-to-
reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-death/

CARDIAC MUSCLE
 FUNCTION:

• As it contracts, it propels blood

into the circulation
• It does this through specialized
cells called pacemaker cells.

Source: https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/02/24/video-how-to-
reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-death/

CARDIAC MUSCLE
 HEART MUSCLES ARE MADE OF:

• Intercalated Discs
• Gap Junctions
• Desmosomes
• Nucleus

Source: https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/02/24/video-how-to-
reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-death/

CARDIAC MUSCLE
Key Differences between Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle

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Prepared by: Manelli Faten Buenaventura