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MUSCLE CELL
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Location
Can be only found inside of the heart.
It found in the hearts wall
Special feature of
cell
The arrangement of actin and myosin is similar to skeletal striated muscle.
Some of the cardiac muscle cells are auto-rhythmic.
A specialize organelle that can be found
only in
cardiac muscle cell
Nucleus
Not too many.
In the midddle.
Mitochondria
Powersource.
Has a lot.
Shape
Function
Pump blood throughout the body.
The cardiac muscle function has a movement of contraction, which moves the
blood into the heart and the circulatory system that goes throughout the body.
Cells shape can affect function
An electrical
conduction system of
the heart.
Disease related to the malfunction of
your cell type
Some of the cardiac muscle disease is known as cardiomyopathy
What is cardiomypathy? Cardiomypathy is a heart muscle disease which heart is
abnormally enlarged, thickened, and stiffen.
What does it do? It make the heart muscle weaken and doesnt have the ability to pump
blood, often causing heart failure and the backup of blood into the lungs or rest of
the body.
Treatment
There is no cure to this disease but you can make changes to your life style.
But if you want to cure it you must have a surgery. The surgery is called pacemaker, it is placed
under the skin of your chest to control regular heartbeats or keep the heart beatitng
References
Cardiac Muscle. (2017). Qmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2017, from http://www.qmu.ac.uk/hn/appliedscience/D
%20Excitable%20Tissues/cardiac_muscle.htm
Heart cells up close! | Circulatory system physiology | NCLEX-RN | Khan Academy. (2017). YouTube. Retrieved 9 February
2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__afuK1CMpQ