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On innervation myotubes differentiate into different types of skeletal muscle fibres which can be distinguished according to their pattern of innervation, their contractile, metabolic and structural characteristics as well as their membrane properties. Fig. 4.1 illustrates schematically some of the features of the diverse fibre types that are found in vertebrate skeletal muscles. It shows that some muscle fibres are innervated on several sites and contract and relax slowly, others are innervated at a single endplate. These fibres also differ from each other with regard to their contractile speeds and other characteristics (see Chapters 7 and 8).
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© 1978 G. Vrbová, T. Gordon and R. Jones
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Vrbová, G., Gordon, T., Jones, R. (1978). Differentiation of skeletal muscle fibres. In: Nerve-Muscle Interaction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9541-9_4
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