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MUSCLE
TISSUE
•It is composed of muscle cells that
are supported and bound together
by intercellular material that
consists of connective tissue.
 TYPES OF MUSCLE
TISSUE
SKELETAL MUSCLE
 one of the three significant muscle tissues in the
human body. Each skeletal muscle consists of
thousands of muscle fibers wrapped together by
connective tissue sheaths

SMOOTH MUSCLE
At a cellular level, smooth muscle can be
described as an involuntary, non-striated muscle

CARDIAC MUSCLE
Cardiac muscle (or myocardium) makes up the
thick middle layer of the heart
SKELETAL MUSCLES
• Organized to form moused- shaped organs that are simply referred
to as muscles or skeletal muscles.
• Most muscles are named pectoralis major muscle and
gastrocnemius muscle.

• PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE – the superior most and largest muscle

of the anterior chest wall.
• GASTRONEMIUS MUSLE- chief muscle of the calf of the leg, which
flexes the knee and foot. It runs to the achilles tendon.
GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE
ORGANIZATION OF SKELETAL
MUSCLE
 SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS
• Skeletal muscle cells- are long, cylindrical, and multinucleated cells. It have oval nuclei
which vary in number depending on the length of the cell.
• The sarcoplasm of skeletal muscle cells- is acidophilic that contains all the common
organelles such as: Golgi complex, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and some
inclusions.
• Myoglobin – an oxygen binding protein responsible for the brownish color of muscle.
• Myofibrils- the most noteworthy feature of the sarcoplasm.
• Sarcomere – a myofibrils is made up of numerous small contractile unit.
• Muscle filaments – comprise a sarcomere are of two types :
• - thick and thin
• Thick filaments- occupy the middle zone of a sarcomere, they are kept aligned bt the
attachment of their midpoints of the M-LINE.
• Thin filaments – peripheral zone of sarcomere, one end of each thin filaments is
attached to a Z- LINE while the other is free.
 PROTEINS IN MUSCLE
FILAMENTS
•FOUR TYPES OF PROTEIN
• Actin
• Tropomyosin
• Troponin
• Myosin

•Actin and myosin are the most

abundant accounting for about
60% of total muscle protein