Muscular Tissue

• The cells of the muscular tissue are long and thin, called fibres
• They respond to stimulus by contracting and becoming shorter
• Three types of muscular tissue:

  • Skeletal muscle
  • Involuntary muscle
  • Cardiac muscle
• Skeletal muscles are muscles attached to the bones which can be controlled voluntarily so we can move the parts of our body we need to
• Skeletal muscle fibres have stripes (striations)
• Involuntary muscles (or smooth muscle) are made up of cells we cannot contract voluntarily such as the walls of the stomach, blood vessels and intestines
• Muscular Tissues

  
• Cardiac muscle is mostly what the heart is comprised of
• The heart contracts and pumps blood around the body and is not voluntarily controlled