| | | Cardiac muscle is found in the walls of the heart chambers. The muscle fibres are striated in a similar way to skeletal muscle, but differ from skeletal muscle in the way they branch, forming a network rather than parallel bundles. Cardiac muscle fibres have a spontaneous rhythm of contraction, but in the normal heart their activity is regulated by the natural pacemaker and associated specialised tissues. | 
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