BRAINCAKESmooth Muscle
Smooth muscle is involuntary. There are no striations and contraction is slow, but the muscles can remain contracted for a long time. Each spindle-shaped fibre has only one nucleus and there is no regular arrangement so cells can contract in different directions.
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