These are about 8 nm in diameter and, being the thinnest of the cytoskeletal filaments, are also called microfilaments. (In skeletal muscle fibers they are called thin filaments.) Some functions of actin filaments: 1  form a band just beneath the plasma membrane that.  provides mechanical strength to the cell.
The microfilaments are arranged so that the fibers appear to have stripes (striations) in them. These are also called voluntary muscles.. Smooth muscle is involuntary, and is not under conscious control; the muscles in your digestive system are smooth muscles.The cells are individual and are found in sheets instead of long fibers. (Cardiac muscle has characteristics of both, but are not referred to in the question).here skeletal muscle is voluntary, cardiac muscle is autorhythmic (beats involuntarily; generates its own action potentials). 3. Smooth muscle: refers to the muscles that are controlled involuntarily by the brain, like those attached to the base of hair follicles or in the walls of the gastro-intestinal tract.
Cardiac muscle is the muscle that your heart uses, this type of muscle never tires, skeletal muscle is like the muscle you use to contract your arm, and smooth muscle is the m â¦ uscle your stomache and other similair organs use to push food through your system.keletal muscles are striated and are the muscles that are in voluntary control. These include biceps(arm), pectoralis major(chest) and other muscles that you can move. These muscles are striated and has many nuclei. Smooth muscles are not striated and are the muscles that are not in voluntary control.