Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle, but is controlled by both the autonomic nervous system and its own pacemaker cells, causing it to contract automatically and rhythmically.

Creatinekinase, or CK for short, may sound like something out of a textbook, but it’s quite responsible for keeping your body going, particularly your muscles, heart, and brain. Consider CK to be your ...

Cardiac muscle tissue is one of the three types of muscle tissue in your body. The other two types are skeletal muscle tissue and smooth muscle tissue.

You have 3 different types of muscle: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscle alone accounts for over 650 different muscles. Have you ever wondered how many muscles you have in your body?

Three Kinds of Muscles The human body is composed of three types of muscles, skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Skeletal Muscle Skeletal muscles are striated (banded), and are what most of us think of ...

Among the most impressive systems of the body is the musculoskeletal system. But how many muscles are in the human body?

Muscles can only contract and relax, so they always work in pairs called antagonistic muscles. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend.

Cardiac muscle resists fatigue so well because it’s got more mitochondria than skeletal muscle. With so many power plants at its disposal, the heart doesn’t need to stop and chill out.