Voluntary (skeletal or striated) muscle
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- Created on: 21-02-13 01:14
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- Voluntary (skeletal or striated) muscle
- Contracts quickly, fatigues quickly
- Contraction under voluntary nervous system control
- Long multinucleate fibres
- 100 µm in diameter
- Surrounded by cell surface membrane called sarcolemma
- Voluntary movements of skeleton at the joints
- Cytoplasm called sarcoplasm
- Many mitochondria
- Extensive sarcoplasmic reticulum
- Number of myofibrils
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