12+ Cardiac Muscle Cell Labeled Diagram. Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle or myocardium) is one of three types of vertebrate muscles, with the other two being skeletal and smooth muscles. Cardiac muscle cells are arranged in parallel bundles joined to each other at the intercalated disc regions at the ends and along the sides of the cells.
While cardiomyocytes are muscle cells, they are different from other muscle cells in a number of ways. Cardiac muscle cells branch freely. Cardiac muscle cells are branched, allowing for faster signal propagation and contraction in three dimensions.
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12+ Cardiac Muscle Cell Labeled Diagram. Together all of the cardiac muscle cells in the heart form a giant network connected end to end. This is one feature that differentiates it from skeletal muscle tissue your pacemaker cells are connected to other cardiac muscle cells, allowing them to pass along signals. Like smooth muscle, each cardiac muscle cell has a single (sometimes two) centrally located nucleus. The sarcolemma (plasma membrane) of an unstimulated muscle cell is polarized—that is, the inside of the sarcolemma is negatively charged with respect to the outside.