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Why do Cardiac muscles never get tired while working, while other muscles get tired after working for a long time?

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Heart is made up of cardiac muscles that unlike other muscle can work continuously. Cardiac muscles actually have 35% more mitochondria than other types of muscles which have only 1-2 % mitochondria. Mitochondria being power house of cell is the continuous source of energy for these heart muscles.

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