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Skeletal Muscle - longitudinal Section
Skeletal muscle tend to have long fibrous cells with multiple nuclei.
Skeletal muscle cells are long and parallel while cardiac muscle cells tend to branch.
If viewed with a high enough power you will see striations which are due to the contractile elements of the
tissue. The darker bands are the thick myosin fillaments and the lighter bands are the thinner actin fillaments.
Slides on this page were made by students between the spring of 2018 and the fall of 2019. Go through
the diffrent student pictures and compare them to your lab book picture. Then slect one to draw on paper.
Be sure to lable it as it is labeled in the lab book.
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