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The Muscle Biopsy: Still a Research Tool
The Physician and Sportsmedicine
|December 21, 2017
Abstract:
Needle biopsies show relationships between some characteristics of skeletal muscle fibers and athletic performance, but the present data don't establish any of them as predictors of athletic success.

