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Smooth Muscle Tissue. The visceral mesenchyma (splanchnopleura) is the principal source for smooth muscle tissue. It also forms the layer-shaped muscle and connective tissue strata of the vessel walls. The vascular system of the human embryo develops from blood islets in the middle of the third week, shortly before somite formation, when the embryo can no longer meet its nutritional demand merely by diffusion. Cardiac muscle, similar to vascular musculature, develops from the mesenchymal mantle which surrounds the early-embryonic endothelial heart tube.

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Siegel, G. (1996). Vascular Smooth Muscle. In: Greger, R., Windhorst, U. (eds) Comprehensive Human Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60946-6_97

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