Muscle Tissue page 2

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Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS

3. Muscle Tissue

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3.2 Striated muscle

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Longitudinal section of two skeletal muscle fibres (*) separated by adipocytes (+).

The muscle fibre (top) shows the characteristic cross striations of the myofibrils with their dark bands (A) and light bands (I). In the middle of the latter, the thin Z-lines (arrowheads) are visible. Several nuclei (arrows) of the muscle cells are seen at the periphery of their cytoplasm.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×600

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