Fast fibres in a large animal: fibre types, contractile properties and myosin expression in pig skeletal muscles

@article{Toniolo2004FastFI,
  title={Fast fibres in a large animal: fibre types, contractile properties and myosin expression in pig skeletal muscles},
  author={Luana Toniolo and Marco Patruno and Lisa Maccatrozzo and Maria Antonietta Pellegrino and Monica Canepari and Rosetta Rossi and Giuseppe D’Antona and Roberto Bottinelli and Carlo Reggiani and Francesco Mascarello},
  journal={Journal of Experimental Biology},
  year={2004},
  volume={207},
  pages={1875 - 1886},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24476332}
}
It is concluded that pig muscles express high proportions of fast MHC isoforms, including MHC-2B, and that Vo values are higher than expected on the basis of the scaling relationship between contractile parameters and body size.
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