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Muscle Structure
A very high resolution E.M reveals that each myofibril
is made up of parallel filaments.
There are 2 kinds of filament called thick & thin
filaments.
These 2 filaments are linked at intervals called cross
bridges, which actually stick out from the thick
filaments
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