Myofibrils
The sarcomere is the unit of muscular contraction.
sarcomere
The smallest functional unit of a muscle fiber is the sarcomere. Sarcomeres are composed of actin and myosin filaments arranged in a repeating pattern, allowing for muscle contraction and relaxation to occur. They are responsible for the striated appearance of skeletal muscle under a microscope.
sacomeres are a single unit of a muscle fiber multiple sacomeres make up a myofibril
The organization of contractile proteins into a regular end-to-end repeating pattern of sacromeres along the length of each cell accounts for the striated, or striped, appearance of skeletal muscle in longitudinal section.
muscle fiber
A sacromere
The sarcomere is the contractile unit of a muscle fiber.
The Sarcomere
sacromere
The smallest contractile unit of a muscle fiber is the sarcomere.It is composed of contractile myofilaments known as actin and myosin.
The motor neuron and the muscle fiber it controls constitute a motor unit. This functional unit is essential to the process of muscle contraction and movement in the body. When the motor neuron sends signals to the muscle fiber, it results in the activation and coordination of muscle fibers to produce movement.
sarcomeresSarcomereSarcomeresThe functional unit of a skeletal muscle is called a sarcomere. Hole's Anatomy 12th edition, pg 287 states: "Muscle fibers, and in a way muscles themselves, are basically collections of sarcomeres, discussed later in this chapter as the functional units of muscle contraction."sarcomere.