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Calcium is important in skeletal muscle contraction because it
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The sarcoplasmic reticulum releases calcium ions into the muscle interior where they bind to troponin, thus causing tropomyosin to shift from the face of the actin filament to which myosin heads need to bind to produce contraction.
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