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The_Cube
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How is the heart muscle different from other muscle tissue?
May 13 2010 7:19PM
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Sir.Steezealot
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The heart is made up of cardiac muscle which is similar to the two other muscle types which I forget what there called maybe skeletal and smooth muscle?
May 13 2010 7:23PM
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No_Dub
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yeah and the heart is designed to never have to stop, so you dont die. its special.

May 13 2010 7:25PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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all above answers are right. there are three types of muscles (i forget there names) like arm muscles, throat muscles, and heart muscle. the heart is designed to beat automatically without your control.
May 13 2010 7:30PM
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hundreds
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hearts are for hipsters gtfo
May 13 2010 7:33PM
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yourthemannowdog
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yep, the heart is cardiac tissue. It is the most efficient muscle in the human body and the strongest. If all your tough muscle were cardiac we would have people sprinting marathons
May 13 2010 7:37PM
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majora
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http://www.courseweb.uottawa.ca/medicine-histology/english/ss_basictissues/muscle_tissue.htm


scroll down to cardiac muscle.
May 13 2010 7:41PM
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dompuch
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^ i think this is right...
May 13 2010 9:01PM
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ChillTeenDad420
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cardiac muscle is striated, if thats what you're looking for
May 13 2010 9:11PM
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Balto
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ok wtf is up with you and hipsters today
May 13 2010 9:13PM
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paige.
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both cardiac and skeletal muscle are striated (cardiac more so) and multinucleated, smooth muscle isn't. it also has lots of myoglobin and mitochondria.
unlike skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle has fewer, bigger t-tubules. it also has intercalated disks between its cells.
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