Muscle Tissue page 3

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

3. Muscle Tissue

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3.3 Striated muscle

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Longitudinal sections of two adjacent skeletal muscle fibres.

The A-bands (A) and the I-bands (I) are labelled. In the middle of the I-bands, the thin Z-lines are clearly seen (arrowheads). Note that, owing to the thickness of the section, the individual myofibrils are not distinct. Nevertheless, the A-bands and I-bands of adjacent myofibrils are clearly aligned across the width of the muscle fibres.

One nucleus (N) is labelled at the periphery of the muscle fibre above.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×1000

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