Which Statement About Smooth Muscle Cells Is True

question 166

Multiple Choice

Which statement about smooth muscle cells is true?

• A) They are spindle-shaped and multinucleate.
• B) Their plasma membrane is insensitive to stretching.
• C) Some occur in sheets and are electrically coupled through gap junctions.
• D) Their arrangement of actin and myosin filaments is more regular than that found in skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.
• E) They occur more extensively in the walls of veins and capillaries than arteries because of the difficulty associated with returning blood to the heart against gravitational forces.

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