CARDIAC MUSCLE

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  1. 4. When a cardiac muscle cell contracts, the ________ filament pulls the actin filaments toward each other.
  2. 6. It is responsible for keeping the heart pumping and blood circulating around the _______.
  3. 7. ________in a single nucleus.
  4. 8. Cardiac muscle cells appear striated or striped under a __________.
  5. 9. Cardiac cells have only a single _________.
  6. 10. This through specialized cells called _______ cells.
  7. 11. Cardiac muscle are one of _______ types of muscle tissue.
  8. 14. Cardiac muscle cells also contain _________.
  9. 16. _________ of cardiac muscle is pumping blood.
  10. 18. The heart acts as a ________ to propel blood.
  11. 21. Cells joined end-to-end with ________ disk in between.
  12. 24. ________ muscle is found in the heart wall.
  13. 25. Cardiac muscle fibers also possess many mitochondria and _______.
  14. 26. Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium, contains cells that expand and contract in __________ to electrical impulses from the nervous system.
  15. 27. Pacemaker cells are ________ to other cardiac muscle cells, allowing them to pass along signals.
  16. 29. Cardiac muscle ______ striations.
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  1. 1. Cardiac cells have only a _________ nucleus.
  2. 2. Cardiac muscle tissue is one of the three types of _______ tissue.
  3. 3. Cardiac muscle also called heart muscle or ________.
  4. 5. Exercise can __________ your cardiac muscle.
  5. 10. The cell uses ATP to ______ this contraction.
  6. 12. cardiac muscle has __________.
  7. 13. Also _______ as a myocardium.
  8. 15. Pacemaker cells control the ________ of your heart.
  9. 17. Cardiac muscle fibers are ________ than skeletal muscle fibers.
  10. 19. Involuntary heart ________ also a function of cardiac muscle.
  11. 20. The heart acts as a pump to propel blood through the _______ vessels.
  12. 22. Your nervous system sends _________ to pacemaker cells that prompt them to either speed up or slow down your heart rate.
  13. 23. Its contraction is not under ________ control.
  14. 28. Cardiac muscle also one of ______ of muscle tissue.