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1. Skeletal Muscle I
2. Basic Features of Vertebrate Skeletal Muscle Filaments organized as sarcomeres (I.e. striated)
Cells large ( 200 micron diameter, up to meters long), polynuclear, formed by end-to-end fusion of myocytes during development.
Single, mononeuronal innervation (Ach, nicotinic receptors)
3. Tissue-level structure breakdown