Skeletal Muscle Research Paper

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Skeletal muscle is innervated is controlled by the somatic nervous system. It is responsible for voluntary (controlled by individual free will) motion such as walking, lifting up things, running etc. skeletal muscle is positioned next to blood vessels as well as lymph vessels. Contracting skeletal muscles releases a huge amount of non-useable energy that can be dissipated by sweating. When the body temperature drops in the cold or we are very sick - the hypothalamus can stimulate the skeletal muscle to contract and warm the body (shivering).
The smallest functional basic unit of the muscle is the sarcomere and sarcomere consist thick filaments contain a protein called myosin and thin filament contains actin. These proteins work together

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