A new method for non-invasive estimation of human muscle fiber type composition.

<h4>Background</h4>It has been established that excellence in sports with short and long exercise duration requires a high proportion of fast-twitch (FT) or type-II fibers and slow-twitch (ST) or type-I fibers, respectively. Until today, the muscle biopsy method is still accepted as gold...

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Main Authors: Audrey Baguet, Inge Everaert, Peter Hespel, Mirko Petrovic, Eric Achten, Wim Derave
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21760934/pdf/?tool=EBI