Smooth Muscle

[bayyoonful]

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Unlike cardiac or skeletal muscle, smooth muscle is not striated because it does not consist of sarcomeres. Instead, a network of different filaments are found throughout the entire cell body and this helps the cell contract. The three types of filaments are thin filaments, thick filaments and intermediate filaments. Thin filaments are usually connected to regions called dense bodies while the thick filament is found in between thin filaments. The movement of the thick and thin filaments causes the dense bodies to move together, which in turn pulls on the intermediate filaments, which brings all the dense bodies inside the cell closer together. This ultimately causes the cell to shrink and this is known as the muscle contraction. Smooth muscles can be arranged into two ways. We have single-unit smooth muscle, also known as visceral smooth muscle and we also have multi-unit smooth muscle. Single-unit smooth muscles consist of a collection of different smooth muscle cells that are connected via gap junctions. Only a few of these muscles are actually innervated by a neuron. When a signal arrives at the innervated smooth muscle, the gap junctions cause the other cells to contract in a uniform fashion. Therefore, single-unit smooth muscles contract together, as a single unit. These smooth muscles are also capable of myogenic activity. Multi-unit smooth muscle consist of a bundle of smooth muscle cells that are all innervated by a neuron. This means that the contraction of a muscle in a multi-unit system is independent of the contract of some adjacent cell. Smooth muscles are control by the autonomic nervous system and are found in places like blood vessels, stomach, small intestine, uterus, bladder and many other places. Smooth muscles are uninucleated, which means that they have one nucleus per cell.

[andrewm]

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[shelllyshelly]

Desmin and vimentin are found in all muscles, as they are part of the mesenchymal origin, that's the only correction I would make, other than that amazin. I like your videos!

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