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Meat Sci
May 2000
Unité de Recherche sur les Herbivores, Equipe Croissance et Métabolisme du Muscle, INRA Clermont-Ferrand/Theix, 63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle, France.
Muscle fibre types play an important role in bovine meat tenderness, and conditions the speed of ageing. Two generations of myotubes appear during foetal life. Their differentiation results in several types of fibres differing in their contractile and metabolic properties, namely type I fibres and type II fibres (IIA and IIB).
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