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Skeletal Muscle:
• The plasma membrane of skeletal muscle is called sarcolemma.
1. Cylindrical
2. Shows cross striations under light microscope ( which means
alternating between light and dark bands)
3. Multinucleated cells and these nuclei are found at the
periphery of the cell (under the sarcolemma).
4. It is length 1-40 mm which is long
5. The diameter 10-100 um.
Cardiac muscle:
1. No cross striation
2. No sarcomere
3. There is thin and thick filaments
4. Cytoplasm pink
5. No z-line
6. No t-tubules
7. Myosin filaments quite larger and longer than those present
in skeletal and cardiac muscles
8. Contraction slow but sustained