contraction of skeletal muscle

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Contraction of skeletal muscle

When a muscle contracts, the following changes occur to a sarcomere: 

I-band becomes narrower
Z-line move closer together or in other words, the sarcomere shortens.
H-zone becomes narrower

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(http://www.bms.ed.ac.uk/research/others/smaciver/Cycle.gif)

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