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What about hybrids? Supplemental methods for skeletal muscle fibre typing

Omar B El-Kurd1, Patrick Bialy1, Maty Kirkes1

  • 1Muscle Physiology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA.

The Journal of Physiology
|November 30, 2022
PubMed
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Keywords:
hybrid muscle fibremyosin heavy chainskeletal muscle fibre

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