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Do skeletal muscle tissue makes up blood vessel walls?
No, skeletal muscle tissues are located in the skeletal muscles and not blood vessels. Blood vessels are usually made of smooth epithelial cell tissue and not more on muscle.
Give examples of three types of muscles?
Skeletal muscle: Found attached to bones and responsible for voluntary movement. Cardiac muscle: Found in the heart and responsible for pumping blood throughout the body. Smooth muscle: Found in the walls of internal organs and blood vessels, responsible for involuntary movements like peristalsis.
What are 3 examples of muscle cells?
Skeletal muscle cells are responsible for voluntary movement of the body. Cardiac muscle cells make up the heart and are involved in pumping blood throughout the body. Smooth muscle cells are found in walls of internal organs and play a role in involuntary movements like digestion and blood vessel constriction.
How does smooth muscle make blood vessels function?
Smooth muscle is mostly in the afferent branch going from the arteries to the arterioles. The body controls where blood will flow by controlling the vessel diameter. An increase in sympathetic tone constricts smooth muscle, decreases blood vessel diameter, and limits blood flow.
What muscle is associated with the blood vessel?
Smooth muscle
Which blood vessel tunic is composed of smooth muscle and controls the diameter of the vessel?
Tunica interna
What is a Vasospasm?
Vasospasm-- Narrowing of a blood vessel caused by a spasm of the smooth muscle of the vessel wall.
When contraction of the smooth muscle in a blood vessel wall results in the vessel is referred to as being in a condition of?
vasoconstriction
A decrease in the autonomic tone of the smooth muscle in a blood vessel would result in?
an increase in vessel diamete
What is a vessel with a thick layer of smooth muscle and elastic fibers that allow for expansion?
An artery is a vessel with a thick medial layer, consisting of smooth muscle to allow for constriction or dilation in order to control blood flow through the vessel.
What is the blood vessel on the heart muscle called?
Coronary arteries
Name the blood vessel that carries blood from the muscle?
The Arteries
