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no NAME OF THE STRUCTURE LOCATION FUNCTIONS
: TISSUE III. Muscular Long fibres which Around bones, Expansion and Tissue are nucleated and internal organs contraction of striated with light (stomach, muscles, which and dark bands oesophagus, results in movement across the fibres intestines, of bones and other Can contract and urinary bladder, organs. relax due to actin etc.) and other and body parts myosin(contractile protein)
Sarcoplasm (specialised cytoplasm).
Sarcolemma (Hard, covering, protective membrane). a) Striated Long fibres Arms, legs, face, These muscles move Muscles/ Multi-nucleated neck, etc. only when you want Striped/ Skeletal/ (coenocytic) them to, i.e., they are Voluntary Consists of thick, dark under your control or muscles and thin, light bands will. called striations due Also known as the presence of voluntary or skeletal protein filaments of muscles. actin and myosin Helps in the respectively. movement of bones.
b) Unstriated Spindle-shaped Walls of Not under our control
muscles/ Slender intestines or will. Smooth/ Tapering cells Iris of the eye Movement of internal Involuntary Uni-nucleated Skin muscles organs. Sarcolemma absent Lining of blood Involuntary action vessels Urinary bladder Uterus c) Cardiac Striated Only found in Involuntary muscles. Muscles Uni-nucleated, the walls of the Helps in the branched and short heart. contraction and Sarcolemma and relaxation of the heart. sarcoplasm present Comprise of ‘intercalated discs’ which perform special electrical function.
