The contractile element of skeletal and cardiac muscle; a long, highly organized bundle of actin, myosin, and other proteins that contracts by a sliding filament mechanism.

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Relaxed skeletal muscle showing sarcomeres & nucleus

TEM - glycogen storage in muscle

Muscle biopsy showing individual fibre- TS

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Muscle biopsy showing individual fibre- TS

TEM - glycogen storage in muscle

Relaxed skeletal muscle showing sarcomeres & nucleus

Relaxed skeletal muscle showing sarcomeres & nucleus