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Q: Why does a muscle fiber seem striated?
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What are the striated appearance of skeletal muscle fiber is mainly due to?

cardiac muscle appears striated like the skeletal muscle due to arrangement of contractile proteins


What protein is in the sarcolemma?

A thin membrane enclosing a striated muscle fiber. Its the function of 'a cover' of a cell.


What type of muscle is striated?

Striated muscle tissue is muscle tissue that has repeating tubular muscle cells. Striated muscles include skeletal striated muscle, embryotic branchiomeric muscle, and cardiac muscle.


What is sacrolemma?

The sarcolemma is the cell membrane of a muscle fiber. It surrounds and protects the muscle fiber and controls the movement of substances into and out of the cell. The sarcolemma plays a crucial role in muscle contraction and the transmission of nerve impulses to the muscle fiber.


Which muscle is also called striated striated muscle?

skelatal


Are skeletal muscles striated?

They are striated because striated means kind of stripey and the muscles has stripes of muscle itself.


What muscle cell type is striated and involuntary?

Skeletal muscle is striated and voluntrary. Smooth muscle, as is found around the blood vessels and in many organs, is not striated and involuntary. The heart (cardiac muscle) is the only place you have striated involuntary muscle.


What is the striated muscle connected to the bones?

Skeletal muscle tissue is striated muscle tissue connected to bones.


Is cardiac muscle a striated muscle?

Cardiac muscle is striated because the only cardiac muscle in your body is your heart and your heart never stops working unless you die.


What is a type of muscle that is voluntary and not striated?

There is none. The only type of non-striated muscle is smooth muscle and smooth muscle is involuntary muscle.


How is smooth muscle significantly different from striated muscle?

Smooth muscle shortens and stretches to a greater extent than does striated muscle.


Which type of muscle is most like cardiac muscle?

Cardiac muscle is involuntary striated muscle, most similar to skeletal muscle which is voluntary and striated.