A voluntary (mainly skeletal) muscle that contracts faster than smooth muscle and is unlike it in having transverse alternating stripes of myosin and actin myofilaments. They are made up of myofibrils, which have many nuclei. Cardiac muscle is striped, but is exceptional in being involuntary.
See Actin, Actomyosin, Axial muscle, Cardiac muscle, Creatine, Electrolyte, Epimere, Epinephrine (or adrenaline), Fasciculation, Final common pathway, Isotonic contraction, Motor end plate, Motor unit, Muscle tone (or power), Musculoskeletal system, Myofibrils and myofilaments, Myoglobin, Myosin, Myotube, Polyneural to mononeural innervation, Proteins, Psoas muscle, Smooth (or involuntary) muscle, Vagus (or pneumogastric) nerve, Ventral horn