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SKELETAL MUSCLE
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Smooth muscle structure:

1. Smooth muscle cell 2. Reticular fiber

3. Nucleus 4. Dense body

5. Intermediate filament 6. Actin filament

7. Myosin filament 8. Nerve

9. Vavicosities 10. Dense patch

11. Mitochondrion

12. Sarcoplasmic reticulum

13. Gap junction 14. Connective

15. Connexon
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SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBER

(0) Myofibrils (1) Myosin filament (2 & 3) Actin

0
filament

(4) Z line (6) M line

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8) T tubules

9) Sarcoplasmic reticulum

10) Terminal cisternae

11) Mitochondria

12) Nucleus

13) Sarcolemma (14) ???

0 15) Synaptip cleft

16) Synaptip vesicle

17) Synaptic knob of axenal terminal

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18) Axon of the motor neuron (19) Myelin sheath
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20) ???

22) ???

23) Endomysium (connective tissue)

 M line (zone of overlap)

I band – light bands

A band – dark bands

Triad: T tubule with

its two adjacent
terminal cisternal

H zone
 Columnar Epithelium – Human gall bladder

Pancreas (Human)
White fibrous tissue – Human tendon
Elastic cartilages – ear of pig

Oesophagus of rabbit
Lung human – showing alveoli, blood vessels and pleura

Thyroid gland of sheep

 Nerve Cell

Trachea

Ciliated epithelium –
Human trachea
White fibrous tissue – Human tendon Aorta Human

Nerve human
Hyaline cartilage – Human

Spinal cord human

(for general structure)
 Adipose tissue – Human

Mammal Hypophysis
 Artery

Artery and vein – human

(elastica stained)

veins

Lung Human – showing

alveoli, blood vessels and
pleura