Sarcoplasm
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The Sarcoplasm of a muscle fiber is comparable to the cytoplasm of other cells, but it houses unusually large amounts of glycosomes (granules of stored glycogen) and significant amounts of myoglobin, an oxygen binding protein.
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skeletal muscle/general: epimysium, fascicle, perimysium, endomysium, muscle fiber, myofibril
sarcomere (a, i, and h bands; z and m lines), myofilaments (thin filament/actin, thick filament/myosin, elastic filament/titin), tropomyosin, troponin (T, C, I)
neuromuscular junction, intrafusal muscle fiber, extrafusal muscle fiber, motor unit, muscle spindle, sliding filament mechanism
myoblast, satellite cells, sarcoplasm, sarcolemma, sarcoplasmic reticulum, T-tubule
