how cells in a bicep

Question: how cells in a bicep
- Keywords:
  bicep,
  cell,
  muscle
Asked by dylanbt to Callum, Gina, Katie, Michelle, Sam on 15 Nov 2012.
- Michelle Linterman answered on 15 Nov 2012:
  
  Hi Dylan,
  
  I’m not sure how many cells there are in a human bicep exactly, but there would be thousands and thousands. The cells that make up the bicep are called skeletal muscle cells, and they are important for moving the bones in your arms.
  
  Michelle
- Callum Johnston answered on 16 Nov 2012:
  
  The cells that make up your biceps are muscle cells. When you lift lots of heavy weights the muscle fibres (which are made from the cells) in the bicep break down and then when they regrow they become stronger making your biceps bigger!
- Katie Howe answered on 18 Nov 2012:
  
  I dont know exactly how many cells in your bicep but as michelle said it would probably be thousands. The way that muscle cells work is that they contain lots of long strands of protein which slide towards each other and overlap over one another when you want to move that particular muscle. This causes the muscle cells to shorten and thats when you can see your muscles bulge up.
  
  An interesting thing about muscles is that if you do a lot of exercise, although your muscles look bigger you still have the same number of muscle cells. The reason why your muscles will appear bigger is that the muscle cells contain more of these protein strands that I was talking about above and this makes the muscle cells themselves bigger.

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