Skeletal Muscle

Enables voluntary movement, maintains posture, and generates heat, serving as a significant site for glucose uptake and storage as glycogen.

Key Functions:

• Facilitates voluntary movement and locomotion.
• Maintains posture and stabilizes joints.
• Generates heat to maintain body temperature.
• Stores glycogen for energy.
• Major site of glucose uptake.

Interacting Systems & Components:

• Nervous System (receives signals from)
• Bones (attaches to and moves)
• Glucose (uptakes and stores as glycogen)
• Glycogen (storage form of glucose)
• Actin (contractile protein)
• Myosin (contractile protein)