Skeletal muscle

Skeletal muscle
Depiction of skeletal muscle
Details
SynonymsSkeletal striated muscle, striated voluntary muscle
SystemMuscular system
Identifiers
Latinmuscularis skeletalis
MeSHD018482
TA21976
THH2.00.05.2.00002
Anatomical terminology

Skeletal muscle (commonly referred to as muscle) is one of the three types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the other being cardiac muscle and smooth muscle. They are part of the voluntary muscular system[1] and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton.[2][3] The skeletal muscle cells are much longer than in the other types of muscle tissue, and are also known as muscle fibers.[4] The tissue of a skeletal muscle is striated – having a striped appearance due to the arrangement of the sarcomeres.

A skeletal muscle contains multiple fascicles – bundles of muscle fibers. Each individual fiber, and each muscle is surrounded by a type of connective tissue layer of fascia. Muscle fibers are formed from the fusion of developmental myoblasts in a process known as myogenesis resulting in long multinucleated cells. In these cells the nuclei, termed myonuclei, are located along the inside of the cell membrane. Muscle fibers also have multiple mitochondria to meet energy needs.

Muscle fibers are in turn composed of myofibrils. The myofibrils are composed of actin and myosin filaments called myofilaments, repeated in units called sarcomeres, which are the basic functional, contractile units of the muscle fiber necessary for muscle contraction.[5] Muscles are predominantly powered by the oxidation of fats and carbohydrates, but anaerobic chemical reactions are also used, particularly by fast twitch fibers. These chemical reactions produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules that are used to power the movement of the myosin heads.[6]

Skeletal muscle comprises about 35% of the body of humans by weight.[7] The functions of skeletal muscle include producing movement, maintaining body posture, controlling body temperature, and stabilizing joints.[8] Skeletal muscle is also an endocrine organ.[9][10][11] Under different physiological conditions, subsets of 654 different proteins as well as lipids, amino acids, metabolites and small RNAs are found in the secretome of skeletal muscles.[12]

Skeletal muscles are substantially composed of multinucleated contractile muscle fibers (myocytes). However, considerable numbers of resident and infiltrating mononuclear cells are also present in skeletal muscles.[13] In terms of volume, myocytes make up the great majority of skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle myocytes are usually very large, being about 2–3 cm long and 100 μm in diameter.[14] By comparison, the mononuclear cells in muscles are much smaller. Some of the mononuclear cells in muscles[15] are endothelial cells (which are about 50–70 μm long, 10–30 μm wide and 0.1–10 μm thick),[16] macrophages (21 μm in diameter) and neutrophils (12-15 μm in diameter).[17] However, in terms of nuclei present in skeletal muscle, myocyte nuclei may be only half of the nuclei present, while nuclei from resident and infiltrating mononuclear cells make up the other half.[13]

Considerable research on skeletal muscle is focused on the muscle fiber cells, the myocytes, as discussed in detail in the first sections, below. However, recently, interest has also focused on the different types of mononuclear cells of skeletal muscle, as well as on the endocrine functions of muscle, described subsequently, below.

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