Skeletal muscle fibre types: detection methods and embryonic determinants.

doi:10.14670/HH-13.201

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Skeletal muscle fibre types: detection methods and embryonic determinants.

Histology and histopathology - 1 Jan 1998

Zhang M, Koishi K, McLennan I S

Abstract excerpt

Muscle fibres used to be simply classified as either type I, IIa or IIb. Advances in molecular and histological techniques have, however, lead to the realisation that the phenotypes of muscles are more varied than this. An additional fibre type (IIX/IID) has been discovered, fibres with intermedi...

Topics

Adenosine Triphosphatases
Animals
Humans
Muscle Contraction
Muscle Fibers, Skeletal
Muscle, Skeletal
Myosins
Phenotype

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