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The Use of Fuels for Muscular Work

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Metabolic Adaptation to Prolonged Physical Exercise

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It is probably fair to say that many, if not most, biochemists had lost interest in the fundamental physiological processes by the middle 1960’s, distracted by the extraordinary advances in molecular genetics and by the resurgence of interest in chemical anatomy. Many believed that our knowledge of such things as the metabolism of muscle was stale stuff-to be waded through in the classroom and then forgotten.

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Mc Gilvery, R.W. (1975). The Use of Fuels for Muscular Work. In: Howald, H., Poortmans, J.R. (eds) Metabolic Adaptation to Prolonged Physical Exercise. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5523-5_1

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