Sarcomeres in myofibrils of relaxed skeletal muscle

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Sarcomeres in myofibrils of relaxed skeletal muscle. University of Edinburgh. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Colour-enhanced transmission electron micrograph of myofibrils in an uncontracted skeletal muscle cell (muscle fibre) showing the structure of the sarcomere with its dark and light bands between the two Z-discs. One of the cell's many nuclei can also be seen. The distance between the two Z-discs is 2.45 micrometres.

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