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Skeletal muscle fibre plasticity in response to selected environmental and physiological stimuli.
Histology and histopathology - 1 May 2009
Matsakas Antonios, Patel Ketan
Abstract excerpt
Skeletal muscle constitutes a highly adaptable and malleable tissue that responds to environmental and physiological challenges by changing its phenotype in terms of size and composition, outcomes that are brought about by changes in gene expression, biochemical and metabolic properties. Both the short- and long-term effects of nutritional alterations on skeletal muscle homeostasis have been defined as the object...
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