Navigation Links
Cardiac muscle


cardiac muscle The type of muscle that is found in the walls of the heart. Cardiac muscle is striated but branched, unlike the straight-shaped striated skeletal muscle cells. PICTURE ...
Full article >>>

cardiac muscle: found within the heart
skeletal muscle (or "voluntary"): attached to the skeleton and used to facilitate movement
Smooth muscles do not contain sarcomeres ...
Full article >>>

cardiac muscle
(kar-dee-ak)
A type of muscle that forms the contractile wall of the heart; its cells are joined by intercalated discs that relay each heartbeat.
Full article >>>

cardiac muscle: the involuntary muscle found in the heart; contains actin and myosin filaments.
carnivores: animals that eat other animals.
carrying capacity: a situation when a population has reached the maximum size that the environment can support.
Full article >>>

cardiac muscle Specialized type of muscle tissue found only in the heart.
cardioactive glycoside Sugar-containing molecules with an active compound that affects the heartbeat.
cardiovascular system See circulatory system.
Full article >>>

cardiac muscle
A type of muscle that forms the contractile wall of the heart; its cells are joined by intercalated discs that relay each heartbeat.
Covered in:
Lab 16 Rat Respiratory and Circulatory Systems
Lab 17 Rat and Frog Comparative Anatomy ...
Full article >>>

Cardiac Muscle
Cardiac or heart muscle resembles skeletal muscle in some ways: it is striated and each cell contains sarcomeres with sliding filaments of actin and myosin.
Full article >>>

Skeletal muscle (striated): Unlike cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle can develop a sustained condition known as tetany through high frequency stimulation, resulting in overlapping twitches and a phenomenon known as wave summation.
Full article >>>

The middle and thickest layer of cardiac muscle in the heart wall.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...
Full article >>>

AutonomicNS the functional part of the NS which controls visceral and cardiac muscles; includes sympathetic and parasympathetic NS
(auto = self; nomos = law; autonomos = independent self-governing) ...
Full article >>>

Some cells remain permanently in G2. Example: cardiac muscle
Below: Whitefish blastula X 400
Mitosis in Plants ...
Full article >>>

parasympathetic nervous system- part of the autonomic nervous system that regulates the involuntary activity of glands, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle. It is derived from the vagal and sacral neural crest cells.
PCR - see polymerase chain reaction.
Full article >>>


'"/>


See more about: Cardiac muscle

TAG: Cardiac muscle
Other biology dictionary
(Date:8/28/2008)...hat happens when linguistic tools used to analyze ...en a language-competent bonobo and a human? The fi...tegrative Psychological and Behavioral Science , i... competency in ordinary conversation than in contr... paper was written by Janni Pedersen, an Iowa Stat...
(Date:8/28/2008)...g two eyes to see the world around us has long bee...D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer...pening advantage to binocular vision: our ability ...ects, reptiles, birds, rabbits, and horses, for ex...elds or plains, and they have eyes located on eith...
(Date:8/28/2008)...ingham have been awarded 2.8 million by the Wellco... suffering of hundreds of thousands of heart disea..., In the UK, 2.6 million people suffer from hear... effectively managed with the prescription of beta...he heart work too hard. , However, a major side ...
(Date:8/27/2008)...ers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discove...ells for either exercise or antidepressants to red... researchers found that antidepressants and exerci... effects. , These results might help explain som...e a new direction for developing drugs to treat de...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language 2Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language 3Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language 4Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision 2Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision 3New beta-blocker to offer hope to heart and lung sufferers 2Antidepressants need new nerve cells to be effective, UT Southwestern researchers find 2Eisai Receives Action Letter on Fospropofol Disodium Injection for Sedation in Diagnostic or Therapeutic Procedures 6747 1Eisai Receives Action Letter on Fospropofol Disodium Injection for Sedation in Diagnostic or Therapeutic Procedures 6747 2Anti HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years 4207 1Anti HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years 4207 2Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 1Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 2Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 3Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 4Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 5Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 6Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 6744 7Patient Safety Authority Supports National Patient Safety Day 24403 1Patient Safety Authority Supports National Patient Safety Day 24403 2Patient Safety Authority Supports National Patient Safety Day 24403 3
...dentifying and treating HIV-infected newborns is a... the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lu...d that HIV-infected infants treated with one or tw...were less likely to develop AIDS by their third bi...d when treatment was initiated. Infants who receiv...
... team of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station sci...e-fighting fungus used to protect crops, which has...eutical industry. , The fungus, Trichoderma viren...nt diseases. Researchers say the genome sequencing...l genes useful in producing new human and animal a...
...ixty million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan... disease known as African sleeping sickness. The d... which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleep...in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter of whom will die ...nal genetic strategy for evading the human immune ...
... research team from Purdue University and the Univ... Earth’s atmosphere may be more effective at clean...s than was once thought. , Scientists, including ...lly occurring atmospheric chemicals react with sun...produce substances that "scrub" the air of smog. T...
Other Biology News:Asymptomatic HIV babies could use earlier treatment 2Asymptomatic HIV babies could use earlier treatment 3Experiment station researchers to explore genome of disease-fighting fungus 2Breakthrough System for Understanding Ocean Plant Life Announced 2Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought 2Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought 3Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought 4