Assertion: esophagus's muscle | /r/HasProperty | smooth
Facets:
value: in both humans
type: OTHER
value: in mice
type: LOCATION
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: It is primarily smooth muscle, just like the gastrointestinal tract, while the proximal esophagus by the throat is striated muscle.
text: As one proceeds down the length of the esophagus, the muscle fibers gradually change to a type of muscle known as smooth muscle.
text: The proximal esophagus is predominantly striated muscle, while the distal esophagus and the remainder of the GI tract contain smooth muscle.
text: The esophagus is made of both striated and smooth muscles, and is between 25 and 30 centimeters long.
text: It has no specific name, but the esophagus (various spellings) is composed mostly of smooth muscle in an annular (or ring) structure which moves in a wave-like motion referred to as "peristalsis" to propel food along it.
text: The muscle content of the esophagus is unique because it contains both skeletal and smooth muscles and their combination.
text: • Throat contains only skeletal muscles, whereas esophagus contains both skeletal and smooth muscles in an unique order.
text: However, in both humans and mice, the entire esophageal muscle is smooth in the early stage of fetal development, and many researchers have investigated mechanisms of the transition to striated muscle (Patapoutian et al. 1995; Wörl and Neuhuber 2005; Rishniw et al. 2008; Katori et al. 2010).
text: Its smooth muscle is innervated by involuntary nerves (sympathetic nerves via the sympathetic trunk and parasympathetic nerves via the vagus nerve) and in addition voluntary nerves (lower motor neurons) which are carried in the vagus nerve to innervate its striated muscle.