It is one of three major muscle types, the others being cardiac and smooth muscle.
It is also present in vascular smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.
It is made of cardiac muscle, which only exists in the heart.
Unlike other types of muscle, cardiac muscle never gets tired.
FHL1 has been shown to be heavily expressed in skeletal and cardiac muscles.
In sum, cardiac muscle is a syncytium, meaning when one cell contracts, they all contract.
Is there a chance that running a marathon could, at least in some people, harm the cardiac muscle?
In lay terms, this means an enlargement of the heart chamber that pumps blood to body tissues, including the cardiac muscle itself.
The event left him with moderately severe heart failure, or weakening of the cardiac muscle.
In the juveniles there was acute necrosis of the cardiac muscle.