Muscle Tissue Histology
Muscle tissue is excitable and contractile. There are 3 types of muscle tissue. Skeletal muscle is voluntary and has long parallel cells. Cardiac muscle is involuntary and has short branched cells. Both of these types have a visible banding pattern called striations. Smooth muscle gets its name because it lacks striations. The cells are short tapered (fusiform) cells. We will look at the 3 types of muscle tissue. In addition, we will look at the connective tissue surrounding skeletal muscle and the neuro-motor junction of skeletal muscle.
On this page are links to histology your lab book. On each page is the picture found in your lab book
followed by a serries unlabeled pictures taken by students in the between the spring of 2018 and the spring of 2020.
Be sure to look at all the different views on each page and then pick one to draw and label.