Abstract
Human muscle tissue appears macroscopically more or less alike, but in small mammals the muscles often differ in colour. Ranvier (1873) observed that red muscles of rabbits contracted slowly and that they consisted of fibres with much sarcoplasm and distinct longitudinal striations; the white muscles were fast and the histological picture of the fibres was dominated by regular cross-striations.
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Schmalbruch, H. (1985). Muscle Fibre Types in Mammalian Muscles. In: Skeletal Muscle. Handbook of Microscopic Anatomy, vol 2 / 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82551-4_4
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