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Animal Histology

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Talk about the cardiomyocyte.

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Cardiac muscle cells (or cardiomyocytes) are long cylindrical cells with ramified extremities. Their sarcoplasm resembles that of skeletal fibers, with some particularities: every cardiac muscle cell has one elongated centrally placed nucleus. There are fusiform sarcoplasm zones around the nucleus, containing numerous mitochondria, a small Golgi apparatus, localized at one pole of the nucleus, some lipid droplets, glycogen granules


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