The Body & Muscle Groups
There are three types of muscles in the human body; skeletal, smooth and cardiac. In general, muscles are essentially major tissues whose function is to convert chemical energy in to mechanical work by contracting - the process of “squeezing” together large proteins (actin & myosin) to shorten muscle fibers. Cardiac muscles are fundamentally muscles that cause the ventricle to contract during the pumping of blood while smooth muscles generally transport matter such as blood to other... więcej...