NALT

Preferred term

myotubes

Topic

Large, multinucleate single cells, either cylindrical or prismatic in shape, that form the basic unit of skeletal muscle. They consist of myofibrils enclosed within and attached to the sarcolemma. They are derived from the fusion of skeletal myoblasts (myoblasts, skeletal) into a syncytium, followed by differentiation.

myocytes

myofibrils

skeletal muscle fibers
skeletal myocytes

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

70016

Spanish

miotubos

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/260547

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Created 9/3/15, last modified 11/30/15