Anatomy & Physiology › Section D · The tissue level › Topic D.4
Muscle and nervous tissue
Every heartbeat, breath, step and thought depends on the two excitable tissues. Muscle turns electrical signals into movement and nervous tissue carries those signals, and the differences between their cell types explain why a cut nerve in the arm can regrow while a damaged spinal cord usually cannot.
In this topic
- The two excitable tissues
- Skeletal muscle
- Cardiac muscle
- Smooth muscle
- Worked example: naming a muscle tissue
- Neurons
- Neuroglia
- How well they repair
- Worked example: waiting for a nerve to regrow
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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