Skeletal muscle helps move the bones in our body
It is sometimes known as striated, or voluntary muscle (as we have control over its movement)
Each muscle is made from thousands of muscle fibres, each fibre is a very specialised structure called a syncitium (As it has many nuclei, thus not a cell)
Each fibre is surrounded by a sarcolemma (a plasma membrane)
The sarcolemma has deep infoldings in it which are called T tubules (these are used in the depolarisation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum)
The cytoplasm (often called the sarcoplasm) contains many tightly packed mitochondria which are used to generate the ATP necessary for muscle contraction)
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