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myocyte
Sign in to saveAlso known as muscle cell, muscle cells, myocytes
type of cell found in muscle tissue
Key facts
- Location
- Muscle
- Latin
- myocytus
- Mesh
- D032342
- Th
- H2.00.05.0.00002
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
315,088 papers- Molecular regulation of myocyte fusion.Current topics in developmental biology · 2024
- Myocyte apoptosis in heart failure.Cardiovascular research · 2005
- P2 Receptors in Cardiac Myocyte Pathophysiology and Mechanotransduction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
- Microtubule mechanics in the working myocyte.The Journal of physiology · 2017
- Detrusor myocyte activity and afferent signaling.Neurourology and urodynamics · 2010
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Encyclopedic overview
A muscle cell, also known as a myocyte, is a mature contractile cell in the muscle of an animal. In humans and other vertebrates there are three types: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac (cardiomyocytes). A skeletal muscle cell is long and threadlike with many nuclei and is called a muscle fiber. Muscle cells develop from embryonic precursor cells called myoblasts.
Skeletal muscle cells form by fusion of myoblasts to produce multinucleated cells (syncytia) in a process known as myogenesis. Skeletal muscle cells and cardiac muscle cells both contain myofibrils and sarcomeres and form a striated muscle tissue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “myocyte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.