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Smooth Vs Striated Muscle
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What are bronchial smooth muscle contractions?
For breathing: Your breathing tubes, the bronchi, have smooth muscle around them to help you to breath. They can contract. ...Read more
Muscle (Definition)
It is a body tissue that has the ability to contract. It shortens and generates force. It relaxes and returns to its original length. Muscles move joints, stabilize the body, move air and food through the organs, act as valves for bladder, bowel and other organs. They control movement of the eyes. They help us express ourselves by changing the shape of our ...Read more
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Is an orgasm an involuntary muscle contraction of the smooth muscle tissue?
Sort of: Orgasm is a complex reaction that causes, among other things, certain smooth muscle fibers (vagina/uterus) to have rhythmic contractions. Not every smooth muscle contraction is due to an orgasm. ...Read more
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Is cardiac muscle striated?
There are 3 types of: Muscle, skeletal-compose of our muscle mass attach to the skeleton; smooth-located in the walls of hollow visceral organs except the heart; cardiac or striated. In practice, the term is sometimes used to refer exclusively to cardiac when distinguishing it from smooth muscle. Other dictionaries called striated muscle to skeletal muscle. Good question! ...Read more
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Can pregabalin relax smooth muscle, such as the urethral sphincter?
No : It does really cause smooth muscle relaxation. It helps with some types of neuropathic pain. ...Read more
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Involuntary muscle contractions vs fasciculations?
Big vs small: Fasiculations are involuntary small muscle contractions. There are lots of causes. If they persist, call your family doctor. ...Read more
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What is smooth muscle antibody?
Autoimmune hepatitis: This is an antibody marker often present in patients with the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis. ...Read more
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What different between muscle weakness and muscle atrophy?
One is observed: Generally speaking, muscle weakness is something a patient perceives and something that we can test for in physical examination by doing a manual muscle test, etc. Atrophy is something we observe or visualize. In some cases they can be caused by the same thing (ex. nerve injury, immobilization, joint trauma), sometimes they are separate issues. ...Read more
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Which muscle group opposes the abdominal muscles?
Back muscles: Back muscles support spine from behind, abdominals support the body from the front. ...Read more
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What type of muscle twitch fibers does the psoas muscle have?
Type 1 and 2: All skeletal muscle has a mixture of type 1 (slow twitch) and type 2 (fast twitch) muscle fibers, including the psoas. ...Read more
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Can muscle relaxants destroy muscle tissue?
Do not believe so: I am not aware of any scientific study thatprove or disprove the theory that muscle relaxants destroy muscle tissue.They are many different muscle relaxants and each one has particular side effects related to they chemical properties, however I do not believe that destroing muscle tissue is one of them. ...Read more
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Skeletal muscle are voluntary or involuntary?
Voluntary: For the most part, if you have a body part composed of skeletal / striated muscle, you can move it. Not everyone can wiggle their ears or contract skeletal muscle that helps position the testis. ...Read more
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What causes smooth muscle contraction and possibly premature labor?
Three main reasons: 1.) Intrauterine infection 2) Incompetent cervix 3.)A premature drop in hormones causing labor initiation. Of course, there are many more reasons. ...Read more
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What is the mechanism by which smooth, skelatol and cardiac muscle twitch?
Depolarization: When you apply an electric current to any of the above fibers, you cause depolarization, ion flux, and movement of protein filaments resulting in the characteristic "twitch". If you're really interested, check out: http://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=fduja8rwntk. ...Read more
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Are seizing muscles the same as muscle spasms?
Yes.: Get checked for electrolyte imbalance which u may easily get since u are on dialysis. God bless you! ...Read more
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What are the differences between skeletal, smooth and cardiac tissues?
Structural differenc: Types of Muscle Tissue. Both skeletal and cardiac muscles appear striated, or striped, because their cells are arranged in bundles. Smooth muscles are not striated because their cells are arranged in sheets instead of bundles. ...Read more
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What is the main difference between muscle spasm and muscle contraction?
Voluntary/involuntar: Muscle contraction is voluntary, like when you are picking something up off the table. Muscle spasms are involuntary, and often painful, as they happen wuickly and forcefully for no apparent reason, there are many causes of muscle spasms, if they happen to you often seek medical attention to determine the cause. ...Read more
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Can electrical muscle stimulation (ems) technology help tone up muscles?
YES: Filipovic, kleinöder dörmann, an mester in a review published in 2011 (j strength cond res. 2011 nov 5) found that ems could increase fitness and performance. ...Read more
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What's the difference between muscle and muscle tissue?
Usually the same: People use those words interchangeably, so they usually mean the same thing. Muscles and muscle tissue are the parts of the body that can contract and relax, thus making parts of the body move. ...Read more
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Does electrical muscle stimulation help build muscle mass?
Probably not: Electric stimulators have a use in rehab, they keep muscles from atrophying. But there is no evidence that they build muscle, although it's easy to believe that they would. I remain skeptical. But you know what does build muscle? Exercise! ...Read more
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What striated muscle forms the wall of the heart?
Cardiac muscle: Cardiac muscle is the form of striated muscle that forms the walls of the heart ...Read more
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