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Muscle
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- Summary
- This animation presents the structure and the ultrastructure of skeletal muscle in order to help better understand muscle contraction.
- Learning objectives
- To learn the anatomical organization of skeletal muscle.
- To understand muscle contraction at the scales of both the sarcomere and the whole muscle.
- To understand the relationship between sarcomere structure and function.
- To bring out the relationship between the shrinking of the I bands and the sliding of the myofilaments.
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- Keywords
- Muscle, contraction, sarcomere, actin, myosin, ATP, muscle-fiber, myofilament, myofibril
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