MOST muscles are composed of a mixture of two types of muscle fibre which can be shown to differ in myoglobin content. Slow type 1 fibres are narrow, contain numerous mitochondria and are poor in ...

IN the past 30 years many experiments have been carried out on the structure and function of muscle spindles in both amphibia and mammals. There have been no accounts of experiments concerned with the ...

A new study shows that the body's muscles sense mechanical pressure. This new discovery has important implications for movement neuroscience and may improve the design of training and rehabilitation ...