The picture depicts a skeletal muscle tissue that was cut longitudinally and was viewed in High Power Objective. Skeletal is a voluntary muscle, which means that we can acticely control its function. It is attached to the bone and forms a distinct organ of muscle tissue, blood vessels, tendons, and nerves that covers our bones and allows movement. The individual muscle cells appear striated under the microscope like the picture above this is due to the highly organized structure of the muscle fibers where actin and myosin myofilaments are stacked and overlapped in regular repeating arrays to form sarcomeres. Actin and myosin filaments slide against each other and are responsible for the muscle contraction.
The picture depicts a skeletal muscle tissue that was cut longitudinally and was viewed in High Power Objective. Skeletal is a voluntary muscle, which means that we can acticely control its function. It is attached to the bone and forms a distinct organ of muscle tissue, blood vessels, tendons, and nerves that covers our bones and allows movement. The individual muscle cells appear striated under the microscope like the picture above this is due to the highly organized structure of the muscle fibers where actin and myosin myofilaments are stacked and overlapped in regular repeating arrays to form sarcomeres. Actin and myosin filaments slide against each other and are responsible for the muscle contraction.