Single-unit smooth muscle

a. contains an abundance of gap junctions and forms functional syncytia.
b. is self-excitable.
c. is found in the walls of the digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts and small blood vessels.
d. both contains an abundance of gap junctions and forms functional syncytia and is self-excitable.
e. all of these answers.


E

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