Skeletal muscle is a form of striated muscle tissue existing under control of the somatic nervous system. It is one of three major muscle types, the others being cardiac and smooth muscle.

Geoffrey Goldspink, Studies on Postembryonic Growth and Development of Skeletal Muscle: 1: Evidence of 2 Phases in Which Striated Muscle Fibres Are Able to Exist, Proceedings of the Royal Irish ...

The human body is composed of three types of muscles, skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Skeletal Muscle Skeletal muscles are striated (banded), and are what most of us think of when we envision a muscle.

They found striking differences between heart and skeletal muscle, and adult versus neonatal mice, which relate to sarcomere structure, signaling and metabolism.

The Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical Cytology, Vol. 10, No. 4, Part 2: Supplement: The Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (Aug., 1961), pp. 111-121 (11 pages) The extrinsic eye muscles of the killifish (F.