Skeletal muscle

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striated muscle

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• Skeletal muscle is connected with the nerves, and because movement of these muscles can be consciously controlled, it is known as voluntary muscle.
• BLOOD SUPPLY: Skeletal muscle is highly vascular, so much so that it is unusual for fibres to fail to be fully oxygenated.
• Mitochondrial function in human skeletal muscle is not impaired by high intensity exercise.
• Most skeletal muscle is attached to our skeleton (hence its name) and by a special form of tissue called tendons.
• We normally recognise three basic types of vertebrate muscle: 1) Voluntary skeletal muscle is under conscious control.

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