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What is a sarcomere?

What is a sarcomere? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The contractile unit of the myofibril of a striated muscle.
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If cross sections of the myofibril at different levels of the sarcomere are examined by electron microscope, the filaments can be seen end-on, and the three-dimensional nature of the lattice of filaments can be appreciated.
The difference in the spacings in the top epicardium layer and the rest of the heart may indicate that sarcomere lengths in those regions are different.
The cardiac sarcomere is the contractile unit in each cardiac cell.
It turns out that C protein sensitizes certain parts of the sarcomere to calcium.
Effect of postrigor sarcomere length on mechanical and structural characteristics of raw and heat-denatured single pork muscle fibres.
Combined with the use of a single ATP, the interaction of myosin and actin creates movement and shortens the sarcomere.

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