Chapter 11.7, Problem 16AYLO

Summary Introduction

To discuss:

The benefits of the stress-relaxation response of smooth muscle, and of its absence of a length-tension relationship.

Introduction:

The smooth muscle is one of the two types of muscle under involuntary control lining the hollow organs such as blood vessel, stomach, bladder and other. It is classified into two types based on the function and structure-single unit smooth muscle and multiunit smooth muscle.