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Skeletal Myocytes

Known as: Skeletal Myocyte, Muscle Fibers, Skeletal, Skeletal muscle fiber 
Large, multinucleate single cells, either cylindrical or prismatic in shape, that form the basic unit of SKELETAL MUSCLE. They consist of MYOFIBRILS… 
National Institutes of Health

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Muscle Fibers, Fast-TwitchMuscle Fibers, RedMuscle Fibers, Slow-TwitchProtoplasm of skeletal muscle cell

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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The regulation of intramuscular nerve branching during normal development and following activity blockade.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
A general procedure for determining the rate of calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle fibers.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Widespread occurrence of avian spectrin in nonerythroid cells
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Antibodies that bind specifically to synaptic sites on muscle fiber basal lamina
Basal lamina (BL) ensheathes each skeletal muscle fiber and passes through the synaptic cleft at the neuromuscular junction… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Nerve extract induces increase and redistribution of acetylcholine receptors on cloned muscle cells.
The effect of rat spinal cord explants and cell-free nerve extract on acetylcholine receptor site density and distribution was… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
A factor from neurons increases the number of acetylcholine receptor aggregates on cultured muscle cells.
There is an increase in the number of acetylcholine (AcCho) receptor aggregates on striated embryonic mouse myotubules when they… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
FLUIDITY OF THE SURFACE OF CULTURED MUSCLE FIBERS
Fluorescent antibody fragments of anti-muscle plasma membrane antibody bound as small fluorescent spots when applied by… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Development of acetylcholine sensitivity during myogenesis.
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
INHIBITION OF MYOBLAST FUSION AFTER ONE ROUND OF DNA SYNTHESIS IN 5-BROMODEOXYURIDINE
The thymidine analogue 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BUdR) has a differential effect on the synthesis of tissue-specific products and… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
ENZYMES IN MUSCLE. I. HISTOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF ENZYMES IN INDIVIDUAL MUSCLE FIBERS.
Introduction Recent histochemical studies of muscle 1-13 have demonstrated the relative activity of various enzymes in individual… 
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