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The type of muscle found in the walls of the digestive tract is
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smooth muscle
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Heart Muscle is also known as
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cardiac muscle
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The most abundant type of muscle in the human body is a striated muscle, also known as
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skeletal muscle
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Muscles that work against each other are said to be
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antagonistic
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Smooth muscle is so-named because it contains no
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striations
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The muscle cells between some smooth muscles are linked together by junctions known as
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gap junctions
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Where skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles, the smooth muscles are
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involuntary
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Single-unit smooth muscle cells are interconnected by
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gap junctions
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The ends of cardiac muscle cells are connected to one another by gap junctions in
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intercalated disks
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Cardiac muscle is similar to smooth muscle because it is not under
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voluntary control
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