1 Battle star, an award issued to U.S. Navy ships for participation in battles.  Battlestar (fictional spaceship), a type of spaceship in the original and new television series Battlestar Galactica.
Smooth muscle is fundamentally different from skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle in terms of structure, function, regulation of contraction, and excitation-contraction coupling. Smooth muscle cells known as myocytes, have a fusiform shape and, like striated muscle, can tense and relax.
The contraction of both smooth muscle and cardiac muscle is controlled by motor neurons of the autonomic system. 1  The first, the preganglionic neurons, arise in the CNS and run to a ganglion in the body.2  postganglionic neurons, which run to the effector organ (cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, or a gland). 3  sympathetic nervous system and the. 4  parasympathe contraction of both smooth muscle and cardiac muscle is controlled by motor neurons of the autonomic system. 1  The first, the preganglionic neurons, arise in the CNS and run to a ganglion in the body. 2  Here they synapse with.