Cardiac muscle

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Identification points

  • Cardiac muscle fibres show branching without much change in their diameters
  • Contains a single, centrally located nucleus
  • Intercalated disk are dark-staining structures that are found at irregular intervals in the cardiac muscle, and they represent the specialized junctional complexes between adjacent cardiac muscle fibers.
  • Cross-striations are less prominent in cardiac muscle fibres

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