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MUSCLE
Vanessa Cario
4Bio3
Introduction
Skeletal Muscle
striated muscle
640 muscles
voluntary and controlled by somatic
nervous system
head and neck muscles, trunk muscles
and upper and lower limbs muscles.
Somite formation
and myoblasts
fusion
4 zones of mesoderm
Somite differentiation
Subdivision of somite
Division of myotome
epaxial
hypaxial
Myoblasts fusion
Epaxial
extensor muscles of the :
neck
vertebral column
lumbar region.
Hypaxial
cervical myotomes form the scalene,
prevertebral, infrahyoid, and geniohyoid
muscles.
Thoracic myotomes become the lateral and
ventral flexors of the vertebral column.
Lumbar myotomes become the quadratus
lumborum muscl
The sacrococcygeal myotomes form the
muscles of the pelvic diaphragm, anus, and
sex organs