Light microscopy of skeletal muscle fibres seen in longitudinal section. The alternating banding pattern represents highly ordered assembly of contractile fibres called A bands (dark) and I bands (light). The interval between successive I bands is the smallest unit of muscle contraction and is called a sarcomere. Each skeletal muscle fibre consists of hundreds/thousands of individual cells that have fused together hence a fibre has multiple nuclei; these are positioned at the periphery of the cell. Magnification x300 when printed at 10 cm | |
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